The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection

The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection

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Jacques Bellange

The Three Magi: Balthasar, Melchior, and Caspar (W. 26, 28, 27; G. H. 29a, 30a, 31a)

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Auction Closed

October 25, 12:38 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

etchings, 1595-1616, Melchior and Caspar very fine, richly inked and atmospheric impressions of the first states (of two), Melchior printing with rich tone and distinct wiping marks, Caspar printing with delicate tone and wiping marks, Balthasar a fine, black impression of the second (final) state with Le Blond's address, each on laid paper, Balthasar with a Posthorn watermark (cf. G. & H. 22a-c)


largest sheet 303 by 164 mm. (12 by 6 ½ in.)


smallest sheet 282 by 165 mm. (11 ⅛ by 6 ½ in.)

Ex coll. Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne & Whitchurch-on-Thames

Antony Griffiths and Craig Hartley, Jacques Bellange c.1575-1616: Printmaker of Lorraine, British Museum Press, London, 1997.

British Museum, London; Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; Statens Museum, Copenhagen; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1997-99.