Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

48 c HANS SEBALD LAUTENSACK The Angel Consoling Hagar . Etching, circa 1555. 192x291 mm; 7 5 / 8 x11 1 / 2 inches. Trimmed on the plate mark. A very good, early impression of this scarce etching. Lautensack (1524-circa 1560) was among the earliest printmakers to create pure landscape etchings. He carried on a legacy initiated by Albrecht Altdorfer in his landscape etchings from some 30 years earlier, culminating in some of the finest, most fluid landscape prints of the 16th century, before the theme was taken up again by Rembrandt in the 1640s. Hollstein 40. [4,000/6,000] 49 c HANS SEBALD LAUTENSACK Landscape with Tobias at a River (the “Donaustrudel” near Grien) . Etching, 1572. 192x291 mm; 7 5 / 8 x11 1 / 2 inches. Trimmed on the plate mark. A very good, early impression of this extremely scarce etching. We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. Hollstein 44. [4,000/6,000] 48 49