Nov 03, 2005 - Sale 2055

Sale 2055 - Lot 24

Price Realized: $ 5,290
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
HENDRICK GOLTZIUS
The Massacre of the Innocents.

Engraving, circa 1584. 487x375 mm; 191/4x143/4 inches, small to thread margins. Second state (of 3), with the address of Visscher. Ex-collection Robert Balmanno, dated 1812 in ink (Lugt 213, verso). Small restored loss and tear lower left corner. A very good, dark and evenly printed impression of this extremely scarce, unfinished print.

We have found only 4 other second state impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 23; Hollstein 17.