Rembrandt -Portrait of an Old Lady Age 62  Photogravure 

An Original Historical Print from HistoryOnPaper 

This is a special edition 1906 Schmidt print - Title Page is Included

Printed by Frederick Schmidt of Paris in celebration of Rembrandt's 300-year birthday (in 1906). 

Very minor age and handling wear on this 100++ old print.

This print is Portrait of an Old Lady Age 62 from a 1630s Rembrandt painting sold at Christies:   

....where the top auction lot was Rembrandt's "Portrait of an Old Lady, Aged 62," which sold for $28,675,830, establishing a new world record price at auction for the famous Seventeenth Century Dutch artist as well as becoming the second most expensive Old Master picture ever sold. Paintings form the collection of the late Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, including masterpieces by Watteau and Fragonard, realized $43.4 million. Ten works of art sold for over $1.45 million apiece.  

The bidding was fast and furious for the Rembrandt masterpiece as Lord Hindlip, Christie's chairman and the auctioneer of the sale, took bids from clients in the room and on the telephone. When the hammer finally came down cheers and applause broke through the firm's Great Room as the successful client, Robert Noortmann, a member of the European trade, lifted his paddle to seal the winning bid.  

Noortman, who owns a gallery in Maastricht, told the Associated Press he was proud to be bringing the masterpiece back to the Netherlands, and that he had fallen in love with its subject matter.  

"You can tell that the woman in this painting must have been someone Rembrandt really liked, because it is so intimate," he said. "There is such feeling in it that you fall in love with the old lady just looking at it.  

"I fell in love with her even though she's meant to be 62 - and my wife didn't even mind," AP reported.  

The final fee, including a premium and tax, eclipsed the $9 million paid in 1998 at a New York Sotheby's auction for "Portrait of a Bearded Man in a Red Coat."  

"It is the best Rembrandt to come up at auction for decades and he was one of our greatest painters, so I am very happy," Noortman told AP. "I knew it was going to go for more than Christie's thought, but it's only money."  

Signed and dated 1632, the oil on oval panel by Rembrandt was one of the most important works by the artist to appear at auction in recent years. In excellent condition, the painting displays the full technical mastery of the artist as he presented a lively elderly lady and dates to Rembrandt's early, established career in Amsterdam.  

Recent research conducted by Christie's has suggested the sitter in the work was Aeltje Pictersdr Uylenburgh, the sister of Hendrick and Saskia's aunt. Rembrandt is known to have painted both Aeltje, who was born in 1570, and her husband, the Calvinist clergyman Johannes Cornelisz Sylvius.

THIS IS NOT AN ORIGINAL REMBRANDT