Portrait of Hans Felbier

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HENDRICK GOLTZIUS (1558-1617)
Portrait of Hans Felbier
engraving, 1582, on laid paper, with an armorial watermark fragment (crown), a fine impression of the second, final state, with the text in the oval (New Hollstein records three impressions before letters), with margins, on a square sheet, in very good condition
Plate 98 x 76 mm. (oval), Sheet 105 x 81 mm.

Provenance

George William Reid (1819-1887), London (Lugt 1210), his sale, Sotheby's, London, 26-29 February 1890 (lot 242).
Paul Davidsohn (1839-1924?), London, Vienna & Berlin (Lugt 654); his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 22-26 November 1920, lot 157 ('Ausgezeichneter Abdruck, mit vollem Rand.')
With C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, circa 1975.

Literature

Bartsch 206; Hollstein 186; Strauss 157; New Hollstein 218

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Marjolein Leesberg states in her New Hollstein catalogue that this engraving would have been printed from a medaillon in silver or gold, which would have been created as a precious object in its own right. This impression comes with prestigious provenances, having been in the collection of G. W. Reid, Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum, and of Paul Davidsohn, one of the great collectors of the latter half of the 19th and the early 20th century.

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