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CORNELIS DUSART (1660-1704)
Lot 124PROPERTY INHERITED FROM AN IMPORTANT GERMAN-AMERICAN COLLECTION

CORNELIS DUSART (1660-1704)

The Large Village Fair

Closed2 July 2024

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GBP 2,000–3,000

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CORNELIS DUSART (1660-1704)
The Large Village Fair
etching
1685
on laid paper, watermark Pro Patria
a very fine, lively impression of the second state (of three)
printing with great contrasts and luminosity
trimmed on or to the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on all sides
some minor staining
otherwise in very good condition
Sheet 252 x 329 mm.

Bernhard Keller (1789-1870), Schaffhausen (Lugt 384); his posthumous sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 22-31 May 1871, lot 1276 ('Sehr schöner Abdruck').
Dr Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942), Fürth, Munich and Untergrainau, Germany; and Mount Vernon, New York (without mark and not in Lugt).
Private Collection, USA; by descent from the above.

Specialist note

Frits Lugt considered Bernhard Keller's print collection as 'la plus riche et la plus belle de la Suisse'. (See Frits Lugt, Les Marques de Collections de Dessins & d’Estampes, Fondation Custodia, online, no. 384.)