May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 181

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
JACQUES CALLOT
La Foire de Gondreville.

Etching, 1625. 190x334 mm; 7 1/2x13 1/4 inches, narrow margins. Second state (of 4), before the address of Silvestre. Crowned interlocking letters C, Cross of Lorraine watermark (Lieure 29, which he cites for early impressions of this subject). Ex-collection Adalbert von Lanna (Lugt 2773, verso); Robert Hartshorne (Lugt 2215b, verso); thence by descent to the current owner. A superb, richly-inked and early impression of this large etching with no sign of wear. Lieure 561.