Nov 03, 2022 - Sale 2620

Sale 2620 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
HANS SEBALD BEHAM
Adam and Eve.

Engraving, 1543. 82x57 mm; 3 1/4x2 1/4 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 5). A brilliant, richly-inked impression of this scarce engraving.

We have found only seven other impressions of this print at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 6; Pauli 7.

With--HEINRICH ALDEGREVER. The Good Samaritan Loading him on his Donkey, engraving, 1554. Bartsch 42 * HIERONYMUS WIERICX. The Crucifixion, engraving.