Jan 31, 2002 - Sale 1923

Sale 1923 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 460
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
JOHANN DANIEL PREISSLER
Allegory of Matrimony<>

Pen and black ink and gray wash over pencil on cream laid paper. 200x139 mm; 8x5½ inches. Posthorn within a crowned coat-of-arms watermark. Ex-collection Heinrich Kaspar Lempertz (Lugt 1337, verso) and Holtkott, ink stamp verso (not in Lugt).

Johann Daniel Preissler (1666-1737) was the director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Nüremberg which had been founded by Joachim von Sandrart.