?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
PIETER BRUEGEL (after) Summer.
Engraving, circa 1570. 225x287 mm; 9x11 1/4 inches. First state (of 2). Indiscernible (triangle with a flower ?) watermark. Trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, dark and richly-inked impression, with no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject.
We have found approximately only 6 other impressions of this subject at auction in the past 30 years. Hollstein 202; Bastelaer 202; Lebeer 202.
