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HENDRICK GOLTZIUS (1558-1617)
Pietà
engraving, 1596, on laid paper, watermark Fool's Cap with five-pointed Collar and pendant Letters RP (not in Heawood or Laurentius), a fine impression of the second, final, state, trimmed just inside the platemark on three sides but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the subject, trimmed circa 4 mm. into the blank border below, a tiny brown stain at lower right, two tiny nicks with associated thin spots at the upper left sheet corner and sheet edge, otherwise in good condition
Sheet 183 x 129 mm.
Pietà
engraving, 1596, on laid paper, watermark Fool's Cap with five-pointed Collar and pendant Letters RP (not in Heawood or Laurentius), a fine impression of the second, final, state, trimmed just inside the platemark on three sides but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the subject, trimmed circa 4 mm. into the blank border below, a tiny brown stain at lower right, two tiny nicks with associated thin spots at the upper left sheet corner and sheet edge, otherwise in good condition
Sheet 183 x 129 mm.
Provenance
Dr Julius Hofmann (1840-1913), Karlsbad & Vienna (Lugt 1264 & 4532); his posthumous sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 8 - 12 May 1922, lot 576 ('Das ergreifende Blatt in brillantem Abzug, mit Rändchen, auf Schellenkappenpapier') (Mk 6000; to R. Gutekunst).
Eugène Alfred Stuyck (1912-1981), Antwerp (Lugt 4191).
Eugène Alfred Stuyck (1912-1981), Antwerp (Lugt 4191).
Literature
Bartsch 41; Hollstein 50; Strauss 331; New Hollstein 31
Special notice
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