Live Auction 17352Old Master Prints
MICHAEL SWEERTS (1618-1664)
Lot 150

MICHAEL SWEERTS (1618-1664)

Portrait of a Man

Closed10 December 2019

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GBP 5,250

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MICHAEL SWEERTS (1618-1664)
Portrait of a Man
etching, circa 1643-61, on laid paper, without watermark, a brilliant, early impression, printing with intense contrasts and with the spot of foulbiting on the left sleeve printing very strongly, with narrow margins, in very good condition
Plate 209 x 164 mm., Sheet 212 x 166 mm.

Unidentified, paraphe in ink verso (not in Lugt).
Paul Davidsohn (1839-1924), London, Vienna & Berlin (Lugt 654); his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 26-29 April 1921, lot 1043 ('Brillanter früher Abdruck, mit dem noch starken Ätzfleck auf dem linken Unterärmel. Mit etwas Rand.').

Specialist note

As Boerner mentioned in the catalogue of the Davidsohn sale in 1921, the etching may be a portrait of Frederick William, Marquess of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, known as the Great Elector.