ALLAERT CLAESZ St. Mary Egyptiaca, Carried Away by Four Angels.
Engraving, circa 1550. 97x68 mm; 4x2 3/4 inches, thread margins. A brilliant, richly-inked, early impression of this extremely scarce engraving.
Claesz (1498-1562) was a Dutch printmaker who worked in Amsterdam and Utrecht and is known for his small-scale engravings which emulate the German "Little Masters" including Hand Sebald Beham and Heinrich Aldegrever.
Provenance: W. B. Dukes, London, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2757a); and Hermann Marx, Cobham, Surrey, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2816a). Hollstein 111.
