Live auction - Lot 134
[Flemish]
Ars moriendi.
Antwerp, Johannes Wierix, 1602
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Lot description
Engraving, 11,4 x 16,4 cm, wove paper, signed and dated ". 1602. JOHAN. WIRICX. INVE(NIT). SCULPCIT. ET. EXCUD.", Latin text (few marg. spots).
Good, later impression with wide margins. Mounted on passe-partout. Framed (studied outside frame).
Fine engraving of a garden party with Death knocking down a woman with an arrow and 2 demons taking her soul. The man in the foreground is believed to be a self-portrait by Wierix.
Ref. New Hollstein (Wierix) 1848.II (of IV).
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