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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
BARTHEL BEHAM Sleeping Child with Three Skulls.
Engraving, 1529. 43x60 mm; 1 3/4x2 1/2 inches, thread margins. A very good impression of this extremely scarce engraving.
With--Madonna and Child with a Skull, engraving, 1520s. 46x68 mm; 1 7/8x2 3/4 inches, thread margins. A very good impression.
Though given a religious title by Bartsch and other cataloguers, the latter engraving is like the first also a memento mori image, showing a mother trying to nurse a dead child, as evidenced by the skull and hourglass on the window sill. Bartsch 27 and 5.
