?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
HENDRICK GOLTZIUS Landscape with Trees and a Shepherd Couple.
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in dark green, light olive green and black on cream laid paper, circa 1597-1600. 113x147 mm; 4 1/2x5 3/4 inches. Second state (of 2). Small fleur-de-lys with pendant letter R watermark. Trimmed on the black border line with most of the border line preserved all around. A superb impression of this extremely scarce woodcut, with strong colors and with relief from the wood block showing on the verso.
We have found only 8 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Bartsch 243; Hollstein 379; Bialler 50.
