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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
JAN VAN SCOREL (after) The Deluge. Woodcut printed on 2-joined sheets, after 1530. 460x700 mm; 18 1/4x27 1/2 inches. Likely published by Andrea Andreani, Mantua, with his initials (?) in the block lower left on the face of the stone beneath the seated male nude. A very good impression of this extremely scarce, large woodcut.
According to Landau/Parshall, "A beautiful Italianate woodcut of circa 1527-30, now convincingly attributed to Jan van Socrel, uses the subject to display the nude in an imaginary classical landscape. Despite its probable designer, this woodcut was almost certainly produced and distributed in Italy where it would have been stylistically most at home," (Landau/Parshall, The Renaissance Print, New Haven, 1994, p. 408).
The current impression is in reverse of the large woodcut of the same subject attributed to van Scorel. cf. Landau P26.
