Which sale and lot was this sheet bought as in 2023?

The auction catalogue entry is the most recent independent description of the object by someone who had it in their hands. It would give a professional cataloguer's reading of the state, the dimensions and the condition, and it may name a consignor or state a prior provenance. It is the shortest path to a second opinion on almost every open field.

The purchase is documented by invoice held privately, so the transaction itself is not in question. The corresponding public lot page has not been located. A systematic search of the house's public archive and the main aggregators did not find a matching lot in New York in 2023; the only impression of this print traceable in that archive is a different sheet sold in London in December 2022.

• 2Primary documentBonhams invoice and purchase documentation, New York, 2023 · Bonhams · 2023on request
• 5Auction catalogueAuction catalogue entry for the lot as offered, Bonhams New York, 2023 · Bonhams · 2023on request

• The lot was sold through a regional or online-only sale whose lot pages are not surfaced by the house's public keyword search.

  Probable

  The search established that the house's public search returns forthcoming lots rather than past ones, and that past lots are reachable only by direct URL. A lot can therefore exist in the archive and be effectively unfindable by search.

• The sale was not held in New York, and “New York” in the working record refers to something else — the buyer's shipping route, or the house generally.

  Possible

1. 01Read the sale number and lot number off the invoice. One document settles this.
2. 02Failing that, request the catalogue entry from the auction house directly, citing the invoice.

The invoice, or a confirmation from the house.

• The auction house's public keyword search does not return past lots; it returns forthcoming consignments. Past lots are reachable only through direct sale-and-lot URLs, which are discoverable through external search engines but not through the house's own search. A negative result from that search therefore does not establish that a lot does not exist.

  2026-08-12

• Sale index pages render only a partial sample of lots to an unauthenticated request. A sale that appears to contain no Rembrandt material may contain several. Any negative finding drawn from a sale index page is unsafe.

  2026-08-12

• The major aggregators — Invaluable, MutualArt, the-saleroom, LiveArt — gate realised prices behind a login, and artnet and Artprice behind a subscription. None of them can be used to establish a negative.

  2026-08-12

• Bonhams 27424 lot 2 — the impression that is not this one ↗

• RQ-11Can any owner of this sheet before 2023 be identified?