OLD MASTER THROUGH MODERN PRINTS
Catalog Information: 496 lots with images | View lots
Date: April 30, 2009
Auction House:
Location:
104 East 25th Street
New York, NY
USA
10010
Phone: 212.254.4710
Fax: 212 979 1017
Email: swann@swanngalleries.com
Viewing Notes:
Exhibition & Sale Schedule: Sale 2178 - Important Old Master Prints; Old Master Prints Through Modern Prints - begins at 10:30am in New York on Thurs, April 30. All material in Sale 2178 on display at our premises in New York City, 104 East 25th Street, as follows - Sat, April 25: 10am to 4pm - Mon, April 27: 10am to 6pm - Tues, April 28: 10am to 8pm - Wed, April 29: 10am to 6pm - No exhibition on day of sale.
Lot 1: WENZEL VON OLMUTZ Christ on the Mount of Olives.
WENZEL VON OLMUTZ Christ on the Mount of Olives. Engraving, after 1480. 163x113 mm; 6 1/2x4 1/2 inches. Ex-collection d'Arenberg (Lugt 567, verso) and unknown collector, ink stamp with the letter "P" (not in Lugt). Trimmed on the plate mark, w [...more]
Lot 2: MARTIN SCHONGAUER The Adoration of the Magi.
MARTIN SCHONGAUER The Adoration of the Magi. Engraving, circa 1475. 253x168 mm; 10x6 5/8 inches. First state (of 3), before the rework and the date. With thread margins outside the thin black border line. A very good impression of this extrem [...more]
Lot 3: MARTIN SCHONGAUER Saint John the Baptist.
MARTIN SCHONGAUER Saint John the Baptist. Engraving, circa 1475. 153x105 mm; 6 1/8x4 1/8 inches. Bull's head with a flower watermark (similar to Briquet 14776, which dates to the third quarter of the 15th-century). Ex-collection Germanisches N [...more]
Lot 4: ANDREA MANTEGNA Virgin and Child.
ANDREA MANTEGNA Virgin and Child. Engraving and drypoint, circa 1485. 227x236 mm; 9x9 1/4 inches. Second state (of 2). Ex-collection Marseille Holloway (Lugt 1875, verso). A superb, richly-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early and [...more]
Lot 5: ANDREA MANTEGNA (school of) Hercules and Antaeus
ANDREA MANTEGNA (school of) Hercules and Antaeus. Engraving, circa 1490-1500. 335x237 mm; 13 1/4x9 3/8 inches. Trimmed on or inside the plate mark, backed with thin wove paper. A good impression of this extremely scarce print. Bartsch 16; Hin [...more]
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