Many individuals around the globe had been cooped up at dwelling in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, however few had the identical success as Charlotte Meyer, who spent a few of her sudden downtime after a home transfer going by way of a folder of works on paper that her late grandfather had handed all the way down to her. She shared her findings with the Rembrandt Home in Amsterdam, who confirmed that the 35 etchings are actually by the Dutch Outdated Grasp.
In line with Omroep, the Netherlands Public Broadcasting community, the folder had been saved in a drawer within the household dwelling in Zutphen, a city within the japanese a part of the Netherlands, for a few years. Meyer’s grandfather acquired them between 1900 and 1920.
On the time, Meyer advised Omroep, “no person was fascinating in etching … It was nothing particular. For only some guilders, my grandfather purchased 35 completely different copies.”
Meyer has not revealed the worth of her assortment. Nonetheless, from 2023-25, Christie’s London bought a trove of Rembrandt prints collected by the late Sam Josefowitz. The highest lot from the Dec. 3, 2025 sale was the etching Arnout Tholinx, Inspector (ca. 1656), which bought for $4.2 million, the best public sale worth ever for an Outdated Grasp print. Some 70 different etchings, nonetheless, went for lower than $50,000 every. And whereas it’s a drawing and never a a number of, Rembrandt’s Younger Lion Resting (ca. 1638-42) bought for a record-breaking worth of $17.9 million at Sotheby’s earlier this month.
Subsequent month, Meyer’s 35 etchings—together with further works she has collected within the intervening years, by Rembrandt in addition to his predecessors, contemporaries, and followers—can be a part of an exhibition on the native Stedelijk Museum Zutphe. “From Darkish to Gentle” is on view from Mar. 21 by way of June 14.
