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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT FAMILY COLLECTION
JACQUES BELLANGE (1575-1616)
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
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JACQUES BELLANGE (1575-1616)
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
etching and engraving, circa 1613-16, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression, printing with good clarity and contrasts yet a little dryly at centre left, with smudges of ink in places, trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline or subject, with the usual horizontal central fold partially broken and supported, some skilfully repaired tears in places
Sheet 446 x 349 mm.
The Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
etching and engraving, circa 1613-16, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good impression, printing with good clarity and contrasts yet a little dryly at centre left, with smudges of ink in places, trimmed on or just inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline or subject, with the usual horizontal central fold partially broken and supported, some skilfully repaired tears in places
Sheet 446 x 349 mm.
Provenance
Galerie Kornfeld, Bern, 19 June 1996, lot 11 (‘Ausgezeichneter Frühdruck, noch mit den bei Walch genannten Wichspuren resp. Leichten Kratzern.‘) (CHF 31,000)
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.
A Family Collection, USA; acquired at the above sale.
Literature
Robert-Dumesnil 15; Walch 16; Worthen & Reed 29
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