MARTIN SCHONGAUER | THE MAN OF SORROWS BETWEEN THE VIRGIN AND ST JOHN (BARTSCH 69; LEHRS, HOLLSTEIN 34)

Property from a Private Collection
MARTIN SCHONGAUER
1420 - 1491
THE MAN OF SORROWS BETWEEN THE VIRGIN AND ST JOHN (BARTSCH 69; LEHRS, HOLLSTEIN 34)

Engraving, probably circa 1470-72, a very early impression, excellent in its effects and with only a little uneven printing towards some of the edges, at lower left, and with the monogram partly un-inked (not uncommon), on a Chancery half-sheet, watermark Bull's head with eyes and nostrils, single-line staff and X-cross, tied to a chainline (see note), trimmed to the window (as is the majority of extant impressions) but otherwise in unusually good condition, unframed
sheet: 216 by 156mm 8½ by 6⅛in

Condition Report:
Trimmed on or just outside the plate mark below, trimmed outside the arch but within the stippled background at the upper sheet edge and sides, in good condition, unframed.

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Provenance:
Franz Joseph, Graf von Sternberg-Manderscheid (1763 -1830); sale (Band II) Dresden, J. G. A. Frenzel, 1 October, 1838, and following days, lot 92, 30 Thalers (lot 93 was a cut impression of the final state, 3 Thalers 20 Neugroschen), acquired byFriedrich August II (1797-1854), King of Saxony, Dresden (Lugt 971), and by descent; sale, Dresden, C. G. Boerner, 14-15 November, 1933, lot 769 ('Ausgezeichneter, von Lehrs angefühter Abdruck des ersten Plattenzustandes....'), reproduced plate XXVII, RM 1700 to Colnaghi