May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 178

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CLAUDE GELLÉE, LE LORRAIN
Les Quatre Chèvres.

Etching, circa 1630-33. 198x127 mm; 7 3/4x5 inches, wide margins. Second state (A) (of 4). A brilliant, richly-inked lifetime impression with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject.

We have not found another second state impression, or earlier, of this subject at auction in the past 30 years. Mannocci 8.