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LUCAS VAN LEYDEN Golgotha.
Engraving, 1517. 290x415 mm; 11 1/2x16 3/8 inches, small margins. A very good impression of this large engraving.
According to Landau/Parshall, "Only Lucas van Leyden (1494-1533) can truly be said to have challenged Albrecht Dürer's preeminence in the field of engraving throughout the first two decades of the 16th century. Lucas built upon a rich tradition of Netherlandish painting with its own circle of patronage, and upon lively markets in Bruges and later in Antwerp, and an active history of publishing and woodcut making. He was the first internationally known peintre-graveur to emerge in the Netherlands, where material conditions for a printmaker's sucess were at least as promising as those Dürer encountered in Nuremberg," (The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550, New Haven and London, 1994, page 316). Lucas created over 180 engravings and designed equally as many woodcuts; this is among his largest and most ambitious engravings. Bartsch 74; Hollstein 74; Volbehr 69.
