Nov 02, 2017 - Sale 2460

Sale 2460 - Lot 48

Unsold
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HANS SEBALD LAUTENSACK
The Angel Consoling Hagar.

Etching, circa 1555. 192x291 mm; 7 5/8x11 1/2 inches. Trimmed on the plate mark. A very good, early impression of this scarce etching.

Lautensack (1524-circa 1560) was among the earliest printmakers to create pure landscape etchings. He carried on a legacy initiated by Albrecht Altdorfer in his landscape etchings from some 30 years earlier, culminating in some of the finest, most fluid landscape prints of the 16th century, before the theme was taken up again by Rembrandt in the 1640s. Hollstein 40.