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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JAN LIEVENS Mercury and Argus.
Etching, circa 1625-26. 190x165 mm; 7 1/2x6 1/2 inches. A superb, dark and richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early etching.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years.
Lievens (1607-1674) collaborated and shared a studio with Rembrandt van Rijn from about 1626 to 1631; both were students of the Amsterdam artist Pieter Lastman (see lot 211). Their competitive collaboration, represented in some two dozen paintings, drawings and etchings, was intimate enough to cause difficulties in the attribution of works from this period. Two of the earluest etchings attributed to Rembrandt, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt and The Circumcision, both circa 1626, are virtually interchangeable in style with Lievens' Mercury and Argus. Hollstein 18.
