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Lot 149
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Christoffel Jegher)

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Description

  • Christoffel Jegher
  • Temptation of Christ, after Peter Paul Rubens (Holl. 6)
  • first: 320 by 432 mm. 12 5/8 by 17 in.
  • second: 264 by 180 mm. 10 3/8 by 7 1/8 in.
Woodcut, c. 1635, second state (of three), on laid paper, trimmed to the borderline,  a tear in Christ's foot, another at upper left, staining above the devil's head, pale surface soiling, laid to wove paper; together with HANS BALDUNG GRIEN, the last judgment (Holl. 58), woodcut, 1505-07, second (final) state, on laid paper, with a cross on three mounts in a circle watermark, with small margins, two worm holes near the upper sheet edge, pale surface soiling, an old horizontal fold (2)

Catalogue Note

Metropolitan Museum of Art (L. 1943)