Appraisal: Basan Rembrandt Etching, ca. 1780
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Appraisal: Basan Rembrandt Etching, ca. 1780
Watch Todd Weyman appraise a Basan Rembrandt etching, ca. 1780, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2.
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Appraisal: Basan Rembrandt Etching, ca. 1780
Clip: Season 28 Episode 19 | 3m 13sVideo has Closed Captions
Watch Todd Weyman appraise a Basan Rembrandt etching, ca. 1780, in Vintage Denver 2024, Hour 2.
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APPRAISER: And, uh, how do you know her?
GUEST: She used to go with my son.
APPRAISER: You don't say.
(chuckles) What do you know about it?
GUEST: That it's a Rembrandt.
She told me that she thought it was his wife.
APPRAISER: Right.
GUEST: And that it was at different stages in the wife's lifetime.
Other than that, I really don't know anything.
APPRAISER: Well, you're absolutely correct.
This is an etching by Rembrandt.
Saskia, pictured front and center here, the most important character in this print.
GUEST: Yes.
APPRAISER: Saskia is Rembrandt's wife.
And as you see down here, you have Rembrandt's signature, and then the date, 1636.
That's when the plate for this etching was made.
Saskia was from a fairly wealthy family, and Rembrandt was an up-and-coming artist.
And he married her in 1634.
They bought their first house in Amsterdam in 1635.
They were newlyweds.
He's picturing his beautiful young wife.
It's a rather sad story.
Over the next five years, Saskia had four children.
Three of them died in infancy.
She had her last son in 1641.
His name is Titus.
And then in 1642, Saskia herself died, probably of tuberculosis.
So this is a, this is sort of a fleeting glance at happiness in Rembrandt's life.
Rembrandt made the actual etching plate in 1636.
The impression you have was actually printed after Rembrandt died.
His plates survived, and by the 1780s, those plates were accumulated by a Parisian publisher whose last name was Basan, B-A-S-A-N. And Basan reworked the plates to bring them back to some of their original life and glory, and in the mid-1780s, he issued a publication with impressions pulled from the original plates.
And that's what this is.
Now, the way I can gauge that this is a print taken in the 1780s, rather than a lifetime impression, is, first and foremost, that it's an 18th-century paper rather than a 17th-century paper.
There are also qualities in the printing itself.
Whereas Rembrandt might have clean-wiped this plate so that the background was as white as the paper on the outside here, what Basan did was to leave a film of ink over the whole plate, giving it that extra darkness, hiding the wear in the plate.
Now, obviously, a posthumous impression isn't going to have the value of a lifetime impression.
GUEST: Yeah.
APPRAISER: I would appraise this for a replacement value at $15,000 today.
GUEST(chuckling): Okay.
APPRAISER: It's in, it's in beautiful shape.
GUEST: (voice trembling): Thank you.
APPRAISER: Thank you for coming in.
GUEST: Thank you.
(chuckling) APPRAISER: The value of a lifetime impression would be anywhere from $50,000 to $75,000.
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 3m 1s | Appraisal: American Flyer Train Set, ca. 1930 (3m 1s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 59s | Appraisal: Boston Queen Anne Side Chair, ca. 1740 (59s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 3m 2s | Appraisal: Civil War Colonel Uniform Group, ca. 1863 (3m 2s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 2m 50s | Appraisal: Coastal Massachusetts Armchair, ca. 1680 (2m 50s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 1m 2s | Appraisal: Diamond & Gold Ring, ca. 1920 (1m 2s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 1m 35s | Appraisal: Harry Bertoia Sonambient Sculpture, ca. 1965 (1m 35s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 1m 9s | Appraisal: Knobelsdorf Tortoise Shell Mandolin, ca. 1900 (1m 9s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 3m 34s | Appraisal: Manuscripts & William S. Soule Photos, ca. 1872 (3m 34s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 2m 15s | Appraisal: Miles City Trophy Saddle, ca. 1914 (2m 15s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 39s | Appraisal: Moser Cranberry Glass Vase, ca. 1920 (39s)
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Clip: S28 Ep19 | 25s | Appraisal: National Dobro Corporation Guitar, ca. 1940 (25s)
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