?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ANDREA MELDOLLA, IL SCHIAVONE The Presentation in the Temple.
Etching. 200x280 mm; 77/8x11 inches. Ex-collection Pierre Mariette, dated 1696 in ink (Lugt 1790, verso); Richard Ford, dated "1834" and inscribed "from the D. of Buckingham's collection" in ink (see Lugt 2208, verso); John Griffith (Lugt 1464, verso); and John P. Heseltine (Lugt 1508, verso), his sale Sotheby's, London, June 4, 1935, lot 360. Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. A good, dark impression of this extremely scarce print.
Lugt notes Richard Ford's significant collection of prints by Meldolla and Parmigianino among other Italian mannerists. We have not found another impression at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 11.
