Lot Essay
The King of Lycia persecuted Saint Christopher by ordering forty archers to shoot at him. Their arrows were miraculously deflected, one of them returning to strike the King in his eye
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Attributed to Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502-1550)
The Legend of Saint Christopher: the Saint carrying Christ, preaching and led to the King of Lycia: a Design for the central Panel of a Triptych
pen and black ink, grey wash, heightened with white, some sections at the edges made up, inscribed shape above
539 x 414 mm.
The Legend of Saint Christopher: the Saint carrying Christ, preaching and led to the King of Lycia: a Design for the central Panel of a Triptych
pen and black ink, grey wash, heightened with white, some sections at the edges made up, inscribed shape above
539 x 414 mm.