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SELF-PORTRAIT LEANING ON A STONE SILL Rembrandt

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SELF-PORTRAIT LEANING ON A STONE SILL Rembrandt
Original etching printed in black ink on laid paperSigned and dated in the plate upper left Rembrandt f. / 1639.A richly printed, strong and clear 17th century/lifetime impression of Bartsch's second and final state Usticke's second state of three, of this extremely rare etching, characterized G. W. Nowell-Usticke in his 1967 catalogue Rembrandt's Etchings: States and Values as "very scarce - a most desirable portrait," printed after the previously unfinished contours of the right side of the capband were filled in.Catalog: Bartsch 21 ii/ii; Hind 168; Biorklund-Barnard 39-E; Usticke 21 ii/iii.Platemark: 8 1/8 x 6 3/8 inchesSheet size: 8 5/16 x 6 1/2 inches