Hans Baldung, called Grien

Three woodcuts, 1534, later impressions, on paper, Holl. 238 with a Pascal Lamb watermark (cf. Briquet 56, dated 1583), Holl. 239 with a Hat watermark

Holl. 238 ex coll. Rudolf L. Mayer (not in Lugt); a duplicate from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (L. 1943)

Holl. 238: sheet: 216 by 321mm; 8½ by 12 5/8 in Holl. 239: sheet: 225 by 336mm; 8 7/8 by 13¼in Holl. 240: image: 220 by 335mm; 8 5/8 by 13¼in; sheet: 230 by 350mm; 9 by 13¾in Holl. 238 trimmed just outside the borderline, in good condition apart from a 15mm vertical repaired tear at lower edge at right (to the left of the tail), pale fox marks in the neck of the horse at lower left and on the hair of the central horse, a nick at lower left edge, unframed. Holl. 239 trimmed to or on the borderline, in good condition apart from a few thin areas with associated repairs at left (on the back of the foremost horse), at far right (through the horse's hind leg) and at lower right corner, a central vertical fold (slightly broken through in places), other minor defects, unframed. Holl. 240 with narrow margins, in good condition apart from pale scattered fox marks, occasional touches of pen and ink (in the tree trunk between the horses at left and in places on the upper borderline), a brown ink numbering at left of lower edge, the blue inscription verso showing through slightly recto at lower left, unframed.
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