Silenus

Details

HIERONYMUS HOPFER (ACTIVE 1528-1563) AFTER ANDREA MANTEGNA (CIRCA 1431-1506)
Silenus
etching
mid-16th century
on laid paper, without watermark
a fine, tonal impression of the very rare first state (of two), before the Funck number
with narrow margins
in very good condition
Plate 154 x 220 mm.
Sheet 158 x 223 mm.

Provenance

Sotheby's, London, 30 June 1998, lot 167.
Sam Josefowitz (1921-2015), Lithuania, Switzerland, USA and England (Lugt 6094); acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

Literature

Bartsch 28; Hollstein 32

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

Impressions of the first state of this print are very rare; to our knowledge, only five impressions in public collections are known. Hollstein records three impressions (Baltimore, Berlin and Vienna), to which we can add the examples in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. The only one to have appeared at auction within the last thirty years is the present example, sold at Sotheby's in 1998.

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