Lucretia (P., Holl. 912)

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Hans Sebald Beham
Lucretia (P., Holl. 912)
woodcut, 1530, on paper with an Arms of Nuremberg watermark (c.f. Meder 206, second half 16th century), a good but slightly later impression of this extremely rare print, printing with considerable relief, apparently an unrecorded, second state with several changes to the block: the top of the bed awning cut off, several large losses in the lower borderline and a horizontal crack through the bed at left; with small margins, a few short tears in the upper and lower part of the subject, some foxing, the lower right corner creased
B. 355 x 265 mm., S. 365 x 271 mm.

Provenance

J. A. Boerner, Nuremberg (L. 270)

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Lot Essay

Pauli considered this monumental woodcut one of the most important prints by Beham and referred to it as 'ein charakteristisches Hauptblatt aus Behams bester Zeit'. He knew only three impressions of this print, one in Munich and two in Vienna (Hofbibliothek and Albertina.) Hollstein records another example in Berlin.

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