?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
LUCAS VAN LEYDEN The Temptation of Christ.
Engraving, 1518. 172x133 mm; 6 7/8x5 1/4 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2). A good New Hollstein IIa impression, with the outlines reworked. Crowned coat-of-arms with a fleur-de-lys watermark (New Hollstein IIb). Ex-collection Edward Pearf (?) (Lugt 893, recto). A very good impression of this scarce print.
We have located only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 41; Volbehr 38; New Hollstein 41.
