Oct 14, 2021 - Sale 2582

Sale 2582 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 700
Pop-up Peepshow [Kullisentheater] Slides.
The Shepherd Walking his Sheep.

[Germany: ?Martin Engelbrecht, circa 1750].



Six separate polychrome hand-colored engravings mounted on card; five with backgrounds cut out by hand creating a three-dimensional effect when viewed together, the last card left whole to form a sold backdrop for the scene, the final two cards numbered 5 and 6 in the engraving; depicting the shepherd with his sheep accompanied by many other figures in the landscape: ladies and men in the enjoying the forest, strolling, playing musical instruments, talking together, and other peaceful bucolic pursuits; with hand-applied contemporary color, titled in mansucript on an accompanying partial wrapper in French, "Le berger promenant ses mountons"; each 5 1/2 x 3 5/8 in.