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[Drawing] -
[
The creation of Eve
], Italian School, 17th c. ? Sepia ink pen and wash drawing
heightened with white, laid paper, 23,2 x 23,8 cm. Pasted by upper corners under passe-partout.
Verso browning, paper locally thinner, esp. at the corners.
Cfr. ill.
€ 400/600
God creating Eve from a rib of a sleeping Adam. 2 collector's stamps of which 1 on verso.
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[Drawing] -
[
The descent from the Cross
], Flemish School, 18th c. ? Black pencil heightened
with red and yellow, laid paper 36,1 x 26,7 cm. Pasted by upper corners under passe-partout.
Underlaid, foxing, local spots.
Cfr. ill.
€ 300/400
Pietà : Christ bent forwards surrounded by Mary, Maria Magdalena and Joseph of Arimathea. 2 collector's
stamps of which 1 on verso.
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[Erasmus] -
[
Portrait of Erasmus
], 17th c. or later ? Oil painting on wood, 37,5 x 29,5 cm; not
signed. Formerly framed (some marg. traces).
Cfr. ill.
€ 4000/6000
Beautiful half length portrait of the humanist, turned to the left, holding an opened (blank) book. Probably
inspired by Hans Holbein.
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[Freemasonry] - CHOFFARD, Pierre-Philippe -
Diplôme des francs-maçons de Bordeaux,
1766. Eau-forte et burin d'après François Boucher, 41,5 x 27,2 cm (moyennes marges). Léger pli
central, marges un peu frottées avec pet. rest. touchant la date dans le coin inf. dr.
€ 100/150
Belle pl. allégorique : "Sous l'équerre et le compas couronnés portés par des Amours, la Charité repose au
sommet d'une grande draperie blanche soutenue par d'autres Amours. Dans le bas, un troisième groupe
d'Amours joue avec les symboles de l'architecture" (Bibl. des arts décoratifs). Etat
avant la lettre
i.e. avant
les inscriptions dont "Post tenebras lux" sur la banderole et "Loge de l'amitié de Bordeaux (...)". Mention ms.
ancienne d'appart. "P F Quenand (?)" au centre.
Ref.
Portalis & Beraldi I, 190.
~ From the library of Count Lucasz Opalinski (1612-1666) ~
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[Garden design] - VREDEMAN DE VRIES, Hans -
Hortorum viridiariorumque elegantes (…)
formae = Belles et diuerses figures de jardins et vergers (…) = Seer schoone ende veelderleye
fatsoenen van houen en(de) boomgaerden (…). Antwerp, J. Galle, [c. 1635-1640], oblong folio,
c. 19,5 x 24,5 cm, cont. vellum (used, front cover stained, corners def.), flat spine, 29 pl. (paper
age-toned, somewhat soiled, some minor thumbing and wrinkling). Good copy.
Cfr. ill.
€ 2500/3500
Engr. title and 28 numbered engravings.
Nice and very rare Renaissance garden designs
by the famous
architect Hans Vredeman de Vries (1527- c. 1607). Ownership entry of Lucasz Count de Bnin Opalinski
(1612-1666), Polish political author and crown marshal.
Ref.
Hollstein XLVIII, 470-490 & 508-515.
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GOEREE, Jan -
Godtvrughtighe almanach, of Lof-gedachtenis der heyligen, op ijder dag van 't
jaar. Gevolgt na den beruchten Sebastian Le Clerc (...). Amsterdam, Jan Goeree, 1730, 4to, cont.
calf (rubbed, corners bumped), gilt spine on 5 raised bands (def. at head & tail, some repairs),
slipcase, 3 engr. titles, 367 circular engr. plates, 7,4 x 7,4 cm (wormtrack and -holes in lower
margins of first ff., minor spotting). Good well-preserved copy.
€ 800/1000
Very nice suite of
Saint's portraits
(for each day of the year) by the Dutch engraver and publisher J. Goeree
(1670-1731), after the French ed. by Gautrel (Paris 1689) with plates by Le Clerc, Lepautre and Dolivar.
Ref.
Bn-Opale plus. STCN (i.a. BL London). Thieme/Becker XIV, pp. 308-309. Wurzbach I 590, 1.*** See
also n. 977.
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GOLTZIUS, Hendrik -
The Passion, s.d. Set of 12 etchings, 19,7 x 13 cm (trimmed to the
borderline or a little less); engr. monogr., dates (1596-1598), numbers and dedic. to Frederico
Borromeo on pl. 1. Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.
Cfr. ill.
€ 900/1300
Beautiful complete suite in 1st impression, before the address of Fr. de Witt in pl. 1. One of the masterpieces
of H. Goltzius.
Ref.
Hollstein VIII, p. 11, 21-32 (= Bartsch 27-38).
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[Heraldry] - 3 cuivres d'impression armoriés
, s.d., form. divers; non signés. Bonne condition.
€ 250/350
1.
13,2 x 10,3 cm, nom (?) "Roder" dans la partie sup., devise "Justus et aequitus" dans la partie inf. :
homme tenant une étoile. -
2.
17,5 x 13,6 cm, fasce ondée et 3 oiseaux sur fond d'azur surmonté d'un heaume
et flanqué de lions rampants. -
3.
14 x 12,2 cm, 2 écus accolés : 1 aux 3 oiseaux et fasce ondée comme le n. 2,
l'autre à 3 fasces de gueules, lambel et mouchetures d'hermine, surmontés d'un heaume comme supra.
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[Hermits] - 8 engr.
, s.d., various sizes. Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.
€ 125/175