?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
JAN VAN DE VELDE II The Backgammon Players.
Engraving and etching, 1620. 235x268 mm; 9 1/4x10 5/8 inches. Indiscernible shield (?) watermark. Ex-collection unknown collectors, ink stamps verso (Lugt 961 and 962). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, early and richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce print with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear.
With--Woman Spinning, etching and engraving. 187x130 mm; 7 1/2x5 1/4 inches, thread margins. Ex-collection Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (Lugt 324, verso). Hollstein 151 and 148.
