Live auction - Lot 518
[Dutch]
The Four Fathers of the Church.
Amsterdam, Christoffel Van Sichem, 1601-1608
€ 150 / 250
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Lot description
4 engravings, 29,4 x 21,8 cm, laid paper with unidentified watermark, wide margins, signed in the plate at lower left corner (some brown stains, some creases).
Loose sheets.
The church fathers St. Gregory, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome seated at full-length in niches. After engravings by Jacob Matham, based upon frescoes by Giuseppe Cesari (Arpino) in Rome. With 2 lines of engraved text in lower cartouche.
Ref. Hollstein III:4-7. - Hollstein XI:101-104. - New Hollstein (Matham) 84-88:copy 1.