Oct 26, 2011 - Sale 2258

Sale 2258 - Lot 73

Unsold
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
CRISTOFANO DI MICHELE MARTINI, IL ROBETTA
Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist and Three Angels.

Engraving, circa 1500. 252x181 mm; 10x7 1/4 inches, narrow margins. Ex-collection Karl Edouard von Liphart (?) (Lugt 1689, verso). A very good, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early engraving, with strong contrasts.

We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 25 years; Christie's, London, December 9, 1997, lot 115. Bartsch 21.