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MARTIN SCHONGAUER
The Flagellation
.
Engraving, circa 1483. 162x117 mm; 6
1
/
2
x4
3
/
4
inches. From
The Passion
. Trimmed on or
just inside the plate mark.A very good, dark impression of this extremely scarce engraving.
We have found only 5 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 12; Lehrs 22.
[3,000/5,000]
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ISRAEL VAN MECKENEM
The Childrens’ Bath
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Engraving, circa 1485. 107x138 mm; 4
1
/
4
x5
1
/
2
inches.Third state (of 3). Ex-collection Hermann
Weber (Lugt 1383, verso); sold Christie’s, London, June 1992, lot 27.Trimmed on the plate
mark.A very good impression of this extremely scarce engraving, with strong contrasts.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years.
The north German engraver/goldsmith van Meckenem (circa 1445-1503), likely produced
this engraving as a companion with his
Children at Play
, engraving, circa 1485 (Bartsch
188). In these engravings, van Meckenem was among the first European printmakers to
depict such mundane realism, in an art market dominated by religious subjects, while
perhaps looking back to classical Roman sources such as marble relief sculptures with
frolicking putti. Bartsch 187; Lehrs 478.
[20,000/30,000]
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