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Bidding is now open for our Fine Art, Jewelry, Design & Asian Art auction, Day 2 of our three-day December sale, featuring paintings, prints, sculpture, fine jewelry, watches, porcelain and Asian works of art. Highlights include a George Gardner Symons 'Winter River' oil on canvas, an 18K gold Tiffany & Co. Mark Coupe resonator watch and a Dale Chihuly "Persian Set," alongside works by Bridget Riley, Joan Miró, Rufino Tamayo and Chen Chi-Kwan, and more. Auction is Wednesday, December 2nd at 1 PM CST. Local pickup is December 7th, 8th and 9th from 1 to 5 PM at 5263 Edina Industrial Blvd, Edina, MN. Shipping is available on all lots.
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Lot 276

Rembrandt van Rijn "Clement de Jonghe, Printseller" Etching

Estimate: $600 - $1,200
Starting Bid
$300

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Basan Edition. 

 

Image: 8 1/2" Tall x 6 3/4" Wide 

Frame: 20 1/2" Tall x 16 3/4" Wide 

 

Condition: Toning to the paper. Print is in overall good condition. Please see images for details. 

 

Artist Bio: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) did as much as anyone to establish etching as an art in its own right. Trained as a painter in Leiden and settled in Amsterdam by 1631, he treated the copper plate as a place to think, drawing freely with the needle, then burnishing, reworking and reprinting his images through successive states and experimenting with papers and inking from one impression to the next. Over some three decades he made close to three hundred etchings, from biblical scenes and landscapes to beggars, self portraits and the faces of his Amsterdam circle.

His portrait of Clement de Jonghe, an Amsterdam print publisher and dealer, dates to 1651 and shows the sitter seated in a broad brimmed hat, built from a few economical lines and a quiet, unguarded expression. The copper outlived the artist by more than a century. In the late eighteenth century the Paris dealer Pierre-François Basan acquired a large group of Rembrandt's original plates and issued impressions from them in a published recueil, a project later continued by his son, giving collectors far from Amsterdam access to Rembrandt's own coppers. This impression is described as from the Basan edition.

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