HANS SEBALD BEHAM (1500-1550)
Lot 233 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION

HANS SEBALD BEHAM (1500-1550)

A small Collection

Closed10 December 2019

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HANS SEBALD BEHAM (1500-1550)
A small Collection
comprising 13 engravings, including Greeks and Trojans, circa 1518-30, a fine impression of the first state (of two), with thread margins; Cimon and Pero, 1544, a good impression of the second state (of three), with thread margins, Four plates, from: The Labours of Hercules, circa 1542-1548, good to very good impressions, with thread margins or trimmed to platemark, one with a small repair at the corner; Jupiter, from: The Seven Planets with the Zodiacs, 1539, a very good impression, with thread margins; Five plates, from: Cognition, and The Seven Virtues, 1539, good impressions, re-margined; Triumphal Procession of the Noble Glorious Women, 1549, a fine, dark impression of the second state (of three), with thread margins; all on laid paper, without watermarks, generally in good condition
Sheets 53 x 80 mm. (and similar)
(13)

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony (1797-1854), Dresden (Lugt 971). (Holl. 74, 98)
Robert Scholtz (1834-1912), Budapest (Lugt 2241); his sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 10-13 May 1911, lot 170 (`Brillanter Abdruck'). (Holl. 79)
State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, one with their de-accession stamp (Lugt 2681a). (Holl. 131-135)
Joseph Otto Entres (1804-1870), Munich (Lugt 2941); his sale, J. Aumüller, Munich, 16 March 1868, lot 767, (`Magnifiker und sehr seltener Abdruck'). (Holl. 244)

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