HANS SEBALD BEHAM The Virgin and Child with the Parrot.
Engraving, 1549. 82x59 mm; 3 1/4x2 1/4 inches. Third state (of 3). Trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce engraving, with no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject.
Provenance: W. B. Dukes, London, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2757a). Bartsch 19; Pauli 21.
