Lot Essay
As David Lachenmann pointed out this is copied from a figure in Durer's woodcut of The Patron Saints of Austria (Bartsch, no. 116)
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
MASTER OF THE VENETIAN MAINLAND, 16th Century
Details
MASTER OF THE VENETIAN MAINLAND, 16th Century
Saint Florian holding a Lance
with inscription 'giorgion'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, laid down on a red ink gothic type printed page
6 3/8 x 3 1/8in. (162 x 80mm.)
Saint Florian holding a Lance
with inscription 'giorgion'; black chalk, pen and brown ink, laid down on a red ink gothic type printed page
6 3/8 x 3 1/8in. (162 x 80mm.)
Exhibited
New York, William H. Schab Gallery, Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum and Indianapolis, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Woodner Collection II, Old Master Drawings from the 15th to the 18th Centuries, 1973, no. 39, illustrated