Monogrammist L.K. (Lucas Kilian?, 1579-1637) after Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617)

Landscape with a Waterfall (not in Nagler, Bartsch or Hollstein)

Details

Monogrammist L.K. (Lucas Kilian?, 1579-1637) after Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617)
Landscape with a Waterfall (not in Nagler, Bartsch or Hollstein)
etching, circa 1600, watermark Double-headed Eagle in Shield with Crown and Initials M (similar to Briquet 326, 1589-91, Brünn), a fine impression of this extremely rare etching, presumably a previously unrecorded early state (with the monogram), printing very strongly and evenly, with touches of burr at the scratches in the lower right corner, with a light platetone and wiping marks, with wide margins, some minor staining in the margins and a few small nicks at the sheet edges, otherwise in very good condition
P. 112 x 142 mm., S. 177 x 243 mm.

Literature

Nancy Bialler, Chiaroscuro Woodcuts - Hendrick Goltzius and his Time, Amsterdam/Ohio (exh. cat.), 1993, cf. p. 176, fig. 97 (ill.).

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Lot Essay

This is a reversed copy after Goltzius' chiaroscuro woodcut of nearly the same size. Only one other example appears to be known, an impression without the monogram in the Albertina, Vienna. We are grateful to Marjolein Leesberg for her help in cataloguing this lot. She suggested that the present impression might be an earlier state, before the monogram was burnished out, and also put forward the attribution to Lucas Kilian.

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