Lot No. 55


Anthonis van Dyck


(Antwerp 1599-1641 London) Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, etching, on fine laid paper, watermark "seven-etched foolscap with three balls“ and letter"P", titled "Erasmus Rotterdamus" and inscribed "Ant. van Dyck fecit aqua forti" in the plate, 24,3 x 15,6 cm, with tiny margins along platemarks, Hollstein 5 II (of IV), mounted, framed, (Sch)

Provenance: Collector’s mark W. Koller (Lugt 2632) on the verso anonymous collector’s mark Adler (Lugt 2808), handwritten numbering No. 676; anonymous collector’s mark: escutcheon with double figure with crown and laurel wreath (not with Lugt).

From the series "Icones Principum Virorum", after a portrait in Parma formerly ascribed to Hans Holbein. Very excellent print of the IInd state with numerous traces of wiping, before the monogram G. H. and the erased etching defects. The lower left corner completed, otherwise in excellent condition.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at

02.10.2014 - 17:00

Estimate:
EUR 1,200.- to EUR 1,600.-

Anthonis van Dyck


(Antwerp 1599-1641 London) Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, etching, on fine laid paper, watermark "seven-etched foolscap with three balls“ and letter"P", titled "Erasmus Rotterdamus" and inscribed "Ant. van Dyck fecit aqua forti" in the plate, 24,3 x 15,6 cm, with tiny margins along platemarks, Hollstein 5 II (of IV), mounted, framed, (Sch)

Provenance: Collector’s mark W. Koller (Lugt 2632) on the verso anonymous collector’s mark Adler (Lugt 2808), handwritten numbering No. 676; anonymous collector’s mark: escutcheon with double figure with crown and laurel wreath (not with Lugt).

From the series "Icones Principum Virorum", after a portrait in Parma formerly ascribed to Hans Holbein. Very excellent print of the IInd state with numerous traces of wiping, before the monogram G. H. and the erased etching defects. The lower left corner completed, otherwise in excellent condition.

Specialist: Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz Mag. Astrid-Christina Schierz
+43-1-515 60-546

astrid.schierz@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Master Drawings, Prints before 1900, Watercolours, Miniatures
Auction type: Saleroom auction
Date: 02.10.2014 - 17:00
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 24.09. - 02.10.2014