Woodcut on 2 joined sheets of cream laid paper, circa 1590. 436x640 mm; 17 1/4x25 1/4 inches. The letters GF watermark or counter mark. With small upper and lower margins, trimmed on the border line right edge and on or just inside the border line left edge. A good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.
Based on Giambologna's bronze bas-relief in the Soccorso Chapel, Santissima Annunziata, Florence, from circa 1585-87. The black key block only. A chiaroscuro woodcut of only the right half of the scene sold at Christie's, London, December 2, 1987, lot 94.
We have not found another impression of the entire composition at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 19.
