The Large Village Fair

Details

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.

Provenance

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.

Literature

Bartsch, Hollstein 16

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

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.)

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