Lot 80
Lot 80
REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Angel departing from the Family of Tobias (copperplate and print)

Price Realised GBP 441,000
Estimate
GBP 60,000 - GBP 90,000
Closed: 21 Mar 2025
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)

The Angel departing from the Family of Tobias (copperplate and print)

Price Realised GBP 441,000
Closed: 21 Mar 2025
Price Realised GBP 441,000
Closed: 21 Mar 2025
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REMBRANDT HARMENSZ. VAN RIJN (1606-1669)
The Angel departing from the Family of Tobias (copperplate and print)
the original copper printing plate
1641
ninth, final state;
together with the etching and drypoint
on laid paper, watermark Seven Provinces (Hinterding A.a.)
a fine impression of the rare third state (of nine)
with margins
generally in very good condition
Overall 105 x 155 x 1 mm. (Copperplate)
Plate 105 x 155 mm, Sheet 115 x 167 mm. (Print)
Provenance
The artist.
Clement de Jonghe (1624/25-1677), Amsterdam; presumably acquired from or gifted by the above before 1657; his estate inventory, 1679, no. 803 ('68, biddende Tobias met sijne famili').
An unidentified printer or publisher (circa 1700), probably Amsterdam (two dots added).
Pieter de Haan (1723-66), Amsterdam; his posthumous sale, De Winter et al., Amsterdam, 9 March 1767, lot 11 (Fl. 7; to Fouquet).
Pieter Fouquet jr. (1729-1800), Amsterdam.
Claude-Henri Watelet (1718-1786), Paris; acquired from or through the above in 1767; his sale, Paris, Paillet-Hayot, lot 365 (with 59 others) (to Basan).
Pierre-François Basan (1723-1797), Paris; acquired at the above sale; then by descent to his son Henri-Louis Basan (active 1810); his stock list no. 1379.
Auguste Jean (active 1805-1810, d. 1820); acquired from the above circa 1809; then by descent to his wife, Adèle-Joséphine Raulin; her sale, Paris, 1846, lot 540 (to Bernard).
Auguste Bernard (1811-1868), Paris; then by descent to his son Michel.
With Alvin-Beaumont, Paris; acquired from the above in 1906.
Robert Lee Humber jr. (1898-1970), North Carolina; acquired from the above in 1938; on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, until 1993; then by descent.
With Artemis Fine Arts, London, in association with R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara, 1993; on consignment from the above.
Private Collection, US; acquired from the above; on loan to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; then by descent to the present owners. (Copperplate)

Probably James Edward Harris, 5th Earl of Malmesbury, Viscount Fitzharris (1872-1950) (not in Lugt; according to an inscription in pencil verso); probably his posthumous sale, Christie's, London, 21 April 1950, as part of lot 58a ('A Small Album containing Etchings by and after Rembrandt...') (£ 189; to Colnaghi).
With P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London.
Leslie E. Lancy (1911-1996), Ellwood City, Pennsylvania (Lugt 4796); presumably acquired from the above.
Sotheby’s, New York, 12-13 May 1994, lot 109.
Private Collection, US; acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners. (Print)
Literature
Bartsch, Hollstein 43; Hind 185; New Hollstein 189;
E. Hinterding, The History of Rembrandt’s Copperplates, with a Catalogue of those that survive, in: Simiolus - Netherlandisch Quarterly for the History of Art, vol. 22, 1993-94, p. 44-45.
F. Laurentius, Clemens de Jonghe (ca. 1624-1677): Kunstverkoper in de Gouden Eeuw, Utrecht, 2010, p. 149, no. 803.
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