GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Gravures anciennes – Oude prenten
318 [German]
KRUG, Ludwig - The Adoration of the Magi. [Nuremberg], c.
1516.
Engraving, 12,2 x 16,3 cm, signed «LK» (trimmed to the borderline). Stuck by
corners under passe-partout.
400 / 500 €
Reversed copy of Dürer’s enigmatic Sea Monster, showing in the foreground
a nude female being abducted. The engraver, born in 1512, makes one of the
earliest copies of this composition made by Dürer around 1498.
Ref. Hollstein (German) VII: 66 (copy). - Nagler Monogrammisten 2614-4.
320 [German]
LEOPOLD, Joseph Friedrich - Diversarum regiuncularum
icones ad vivum expressi.
12 engravings, 11,3 x 12,4 cm (wide margins, some foxing). Loose.
500 / 600 €
Rare complete series of 12 prints by the Augsburg engraver Joseph Friedrich
Leopold (1668-1727). With verses from the eclogues by Virgil and Rapin. Leopold
worked together with several local artists and was particularly significant for his
reference books with foreign ornamental prints.
Finely engraved adoration scene with the Virgin and Child seated on a step
leading up to a Renaissance arcade.
Ref. Hollstein German 4.
319 [German]
LADENSPELDER von Essen, Johann Hans. After Albrecht
DÜRER - The Sea Monster.
Engraving, 18,2 x 24,7 cm, signed in the plate with Dürer’s monogram and
«IHVE» (trimmed just outside the borderline). Stuck by upper corners under
passe-partout.
1.500 / 2.000 €
321 [German]
MAIR VON LANDSHUT - The Greeting at the House Door.
C. 1499.
Engraving, 22,4 x 16,8 cm, laid paper, signed in plate at lower left corner (sm.
creases at corners, old repair at upper right corner). Stuck by upper corners under
passe-partout.
400 / 500 €
Enigmatic print depicting a couple meeting in a portal by the German engraver
and painter Mair von Landshut (active 1490-1520). Mair’s prints have been
described as «fantastic architectural spaces, with walls joining at the most
unlikely angles. The scenes resemble whimsical stage sets, and are endowed
with an unreal character, like something from a fairy tale.» (Shestack 1967).
His prints are mostly very rare, with nine of them surviving only in a single
impression. Possibly a later impression.
Ref. German Hollstein XXIII:20a.
Prov. Ed. Schultze (Coll. stamp L.906). - Thomas Jefferson Coolidge (Coll. stamp
L. 1429).
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