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

81 c JAN MULLER (after Spranger) Minerva Giving Arms to Perseus, Mercury Fastening the Wings at his Feet . Engraving, 1604. 555x395 mm; 21 3 / 4 x15 5 / 8 inches. Second state (of 2). Small coat-of-arms with a jug watermark. Ex-collection Emile Laffon (?), ink stamp with the initials E. L. (see Lugt 877a, verso). Trimmed on the plate mark. A superb, richly-inked impression of this important Mannerist engraving, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear. Bartsch 69; Hollstein 59. [15,000/20,000]