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The Cave of Eternity ('The Magician')
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HENDRICK GOLTZIUS (1558-1617)
The Cave of Eternity ('The Magician')
chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in black and two shades of ochre, circa 1594, on laid paper, watermark Three Crowns (Briquet 5097, dated Leiden circa 1591-1612), a very good Bailler c impression, trimmed to the borderline, just inside the borderline at right, a few skilfully repaired tears, a tiny made-up area behind the magician's back
Sheet 348 x 260 mm.
The Cave of Eternity ('The Magician')
chiaroscuro woodcut printed from three blocks in black and two shades of ochre, circa 1594, on laid paper, watermark Three Crowns (Briquet 5097, dated Leiden circa 1591-1612), a very good Bailler c impression, trimmed to the borderline, just inside the borderline at right, a few skilfully repaired tears, a tiny made-up area behind the magician's back
Sheet 348 x 260 mm.
Provenance
British Rail Pension Funds; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1987, lot 43 (£6,050).
Giancarlo Beltrame (1925-2011), Vicenza; acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Giancarlo Beltrame (1925-2011), Vicenza; acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 238; Hollstein 374; Strauss 418; New Hollstein 294
N. Bialler, Chiaroscuro Woodcuts- Hendrick Goltzius and his Time, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (ex. cat.), 1993, no. 26 (another impression illustrated).
N. Bialler, Chiaroscuro Woodcuts- Hendrick Goltzius and his Time, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland (ex. cat.), 1993, no. 26 (another impression illustrated).