?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 15,000 - $ 20,000
JACQUES BELLANGE Three Holy Women.
Etching and engraving, circa 1610. 287x200 mm; 11 3/8x8 inches. Large bunch of grapes with a curving stalk watermark (Griffiths/Hartley 11, which they cite for this print). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark upper and lower edges, thread margin left edge, small margin right edge. A very good, dark and early impression of this extremely scarce print, with all the fine details, including the dot-manner shading, distinct.
Griffiths/Hartley list 7 impressions in public collections. We have found only 7 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Griffiths/Hartley 13.
