Lot 46: The Crucifixion (Nagler 1999, Le Blanc 2; Bury 48; Reed & Wallace 106)

Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612) The Crucifixion (Nagler 1999, Le Blanc 2; Bury 48; Reed & Wallace 106) etching, circa 1589, on laid paper, indistinct Circle watermark, a good impression of this extremely rare print, showing some wear, trimmed to the platemark or fractionally into the subject, with inky plate edges in places, the upper right corner made up, a few other small paper losses and short tears at the sheet edges, two short backed paper splits at lower right, the subject generally in good condition S. 332 x 198 mm.

. 332 x 198 mm.

circa 1589

Sue Welsh Reed, Richard Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque, Boston, 1989, no. 106, p. 208-9 (another impression illustrated). Michael Bury, The Print in Italy 1550-1620, London, 2001, no. 48, p. 85-6 (another impression illustrated).

Sotheby’s, London, 16 May 1980, lot 90 (as Procaccini). Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

Impressions of this print are extremely rare. We could only trace three other impressions: one impression in the British Museum, London (see Bury; from the Cracherode Collection); one in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (see Reed & Wallace; from the collections Brentano-Birckenstock and Oppermann, sold C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1967, Lagerliste 46, no. 156), and one from the Young Ottley Collection (sold Sotheby’s, London, 15 May 1837, lot 931, to Harzen, now presumably Hamburger Kunsthalle, Kupferstichkabinett).