Nov 04, 2004 - Sale 2020

Sale 2020 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 2,070
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200
UGO DA CARPI (after Raphael)
The Miraculous Draught of Fishes.

Chiaroscuro woodcut printed in dark green, light green and black on cream laid paper mounted on card stock, circa 1515. 227x343 mm; 9x131/2 inches. First state (of 3). Ex-collection Karl Ewald Hasse (Lugt 860, lower right recto). Trimed on or just outside the border line. A superb, early impression of this scarce print.

Raphael's cartoon, on which the current work is based, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 20 years. Bartsch 13.