May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 2,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
PIETER BRUEGEL (after)
The Pilgrimage of the Epileptics (Two Groups of Figures with Epileptic Women Going toward the Right).

Engraving, 1642. 178x161 nn; 7x6 1/2 inches. Second state (of 2), with the address of De Wit (partially trimmed). Engraved by Hendrick Hondius. Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark. A very good impression of this extremely scarce engraving.

We have found fewer than 10 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Hollstein 223; Bastelaer 223; Lebeer 92.