?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
PIETER BRUEGEL (after) The Fall of the Magician Hermogenes.
Engraving, 1565. 225x290 mm; 9x11 1/2 inches, wide margins. First state (of 5). Dolphin with a flower watermark. Engraved by Pieter van der Heyden. A superb, richly-inked and very early impression with all the fine details distinct, strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject.
We have found only 4 other first state impressions of this subject at auction in the past 30 years. Hollstein 118; Bastelaer 118; Lebeer 58.
