Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

Master Works on Paper from Five Centuries

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Maarten van Heemskerck

Tobit burying the dead, visiting prisoners and feeding the poor

Auction Closed

January 25, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

120,000 - 180,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Maarten van Heemskerck

Heemskerk 1498 - 1574 Haarlem

Tobit burying the dead, visiting prisoners and feeding the poor


Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk, partly incised;

signed and dated in brown ink, lower left: Heemskerck / inventor / 1566

195 by 248 mm; 7 5/8 by 9¾ in.

John MacGowan (d.1803), Edinburgh (L.1496);

the Miles collection, Lee Court, King's Weston;

sale, London, Sotheby's, 20 April 1967, lot 203;

Anton Schmid (b.1904), Vienna (L.2330b);

with Arnoldi-Livie, Munich, 1991;

sale, Amsterdam, Christie's, 25 November 1992, lot 506;

with Bob Haboldt, Paris, by 2002,

Private Collection,

sale, New York, Christie's, 27 January 2016, lot 33

Ilja M. Veldman, The New Hollstein, Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700. Maarten van Heemskerck, part II, Roosendaal 1994, p. 23, under no. 317