Dido.

Engraving, 9,4 x 6,3 cm, laid paper, signed in the plate with monogram "GP" (trimmed to the borderline, some foxing, repaired tear at upper left, sm. defect to paper left of Dido's right leg).

Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.

Dramatic depiction of Dido's suicide, after being abandoned by Aeneas. The pose is inspired by Marcantonio Raimondi's Lucretia and Dido engravings. The attribution to Pencz was doubted by David Landau in his catalogue on the artist in 1978.
Ref. Bartsch VIII.344.85. - German Hollstein 225. - D. Landau, "Catalogo completo dell' opera grafica di Georg Pencz", Milan 1978, no. 154.
Joined: After Georg Pencz - Joseph and the wife of Potifar. Engraving, 11,6 x 8,1 cm, laid paper, signed and dated in the plate with monogram at lower right "GP 1546" (trimmed to platemark). Reverse copy. Ref. German Hollstein 11. - Bartsch VIII.12. (2 pcs)