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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
JACOB BINCK Classical Gods.
Complete set of 20 engravings, circa 1550. Each approximately 210x110 mm; 8 3/8x4 1/2 inches, narrow margins. Cross on a sphere watermark on several sheets (similar to Briquet 5242, which dates to Milan around 1560). Very good impressions with strong contrasts, extremely scarce as a complete set.
We have not found another complete set at auction in the past 30 years.
Binck (1485-1568/9) based his set of engravings on a similar series by the Italian printmaker Jacopo Caraglio (Bartsch 24-43), who had in turn used designs by Rosso Fiorentino probably executed during his time as a court painter for François I at Fontainebleau. Binck was born at Cologne and might have studied with Albrecht Dürer before his appointment as a painter to King Christian III of Denmark in 1546 and, several years later, with Prince Albrecht of Brandenburg, under whom he was employed until his death. Bartsch 26-45.
