Live Auction 7570Old Master, Modern and Contemporary Prints
Attributed to the Master IOV
Lot 44

Attributed to the Master IOV

Descent from the Cross

Closed2 April 2008

Price Realised

GBP 2,500

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Attributed to the Master IOV
Descent from the Cross
etching, 1543, a good, strong impression of this extremely rare, unrecorded print, probably the second state (of three), apparently without watermark, trimmed circa 20 mm. into the subject at the sides of the oval and circa 10 mm. above and below, the sheet rectangular and with wide margins in the corners, a few short tears at the sheet edges, the sheet corners slightly soiled and stained, generally in good condition
S. 440 x 355 mm.

Specialist note

We are grateful to Catherine Jenkins of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, for her help in cataloguing this work. Ms. Jenkins attributes this print to the Master IOV and will include it in her forthcoming book on the School of Fontainebleau. Apart from the present impression, she knows of three others, at the Metropolitan Museum, the British Museum, and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. There are presumably three states of this print: 1. Before the inscription R.Urbÿn In. (although no example has so far been traced); 2. With this inscription (the present impression); 3. With the address of C. Visscher (cf. the London impression).