Nov 02, 2021 - Sale 2585

Sale 2585 - Lot 35

Price Realized: $ 22,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 18,000 - $ 22,000
LUCAS VAN LEYDEN
The Raising of Lazarus.

Engraving, circa 1508. 285x203 mm; 11 1/4x8 inches, thread margins. New Hollstein a (of c). Crowned shield with three fleur-de-lys and pendant letter c watermark (New Hollstein page 273 f., number Ia, cited for the earliest impressions). A superb, dark, richly-inked and early impression of this scarce, important engraving, with strong contrasts.

Provenance: C.G. Boerner, Inc., New York.

New Hollstein lists only 14 known impressions in this early state. Bartsch 42; Hollstein 42; Volbehr 39.