?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
WILLEM BUYTEWECH (after Rubens)<> St. Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata.<>.
Etchings, 2 impressions, circa 1605. Both approximately 140x105 mm; 5 5/8x4 1/4 inches, small to thread margins. One in the first state (of 2), before Rubens' name lower left; the other in the second state (of 2). The first ex-collection Kunsthalle Bremen (?) (Lugt 292, verso); the second ex-collection unknown collector (Lugt 2506, verso). Both superb, evenly inked impressions of this extremely scarce print.
Hollstein lists only one known impression of the first state (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam) and only 5 impressions of the second state. Hollstein 11.
