Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (1606-1669 )Rembrandt holding a sword (Self-Portrait with Raised Sabre). 1634. Etching and burin. 97 x 122. Bartsch 18; New Hollstein 134. A very fine and bright proof on thin laid paper, trimmed to the square line or to one millimeter below it at the foot. Minor thinning along the right edge on verso, formerly and skillfully restored (with small traces visible in razor-sharp daylight on recto in upper left corner). Old trace of oblique median fold visible on verso. Watermark: Württemberg arms (comparable to Ash-Fletcher 9 B' a). Ex-coll. A. Hirsch (Lugt 133) and other unidentified mark (two small stars).