Live auction - Lot 245
[German]
Apostles.
After BEHAM, Hans Sebald
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
Ca. 1530
3 engravings, ca. 6,5 x 4,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (trimmed short within/along the platemark, paper sl. worn, some spots and creases).
Mounted on one passe-partout.
Three small engravings from the series "Christ and the Apostles" (7 pl); i.e. St Simon and St Jude; St Matthew and St John the Evangelist; St Andrew and St Thomas. All contemp. copies.
Ref. German Hollstein III.41, 42, 43. (copies). - Pauli 41, 42, 43. (copies).
Joined: 1. Idem - Cimon and Pero (reverse copy). Engraving, 6,4 x 5 cm, laid paper, signed and dated in the plate with monogram "HSB/1544" (trimmed to the platemark). Ref. German Hollstein III.78 (copy).-- 2. Solis, Virgil - Small ornament with putti. Engraving, 7,3 x 4,5 cm, laid paper, signed with monogram in the plate 'VS". Ref. Warncke II.372.-- 3. Aldegrever, Heinrich. After Marcantonio Raimondi - Putti dancing and making music. Nuremberg, 1535. Engraving, 5 x 13,5 cm, laid paper, unsigned (ca. 1,5 cm with monogram missing at the right side, trimmed to the platemark on other sides, some vert. creases). Ref. Bartsch VIII.252. (6 pcs)