Martin Schongauer Lot n° 165

Martin Schongauer (around 1450 Colmar - Breisach 1491) - The Resurrection of Christ Copperplate engraving on laid paper. (c. 1480). 16.6 x 11.8 cm (sheet size). Bartsch VI, 127, no. 20; Lehrs, vol. 5, no. 30; The New Hollstein 30. Sheet 12 from the series: The Passion. Brilliant, strong and high-contrast early impression, of great clarity and cleanly wiped. With a fine margin around the framing line. Schongauer created this series of 12 engravings between 1480 and 1483. In the last scene of the Passion, he shows the type of the intact Christ, with the stigmata on his hands and feet, but as the real, unwounded Redeemer without the crown of thorns. Christ emerges from the open tomb, the crossed slopes of the sarcophagus body and the heavy lid, held by an angel, heighten the spatial effect in unity with the vast landscape in the background and place the Redeemer directly in the center of the picture. The Passion belongs to the artist's late work; no further engravings were made after 1483. - Verso with a vertical and horizontal centerfold, with carefully closed paper defects, an inconspicuous, repaired defect in the upper margin and in the sky, which extends into the upper rays of the nimbus, otherwise a fine copy. Literature: Colmar 1991, Unterlinden Museum, Der hübsche Martin, cat. No. K. 95 Provenance: Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), Paris, stamped on verso (Lugt 119), from posthumous sale, Danlos, Paris, April 16-May 12, 1887, lot 484; Louis Galichon (1829-1893), Paris, verso with stamp (Lugt 1060), from posthumous sale, March 4-9, 1895, lot 1054; Atherton Curtis (1863-1943), New York and Paris, and Louise Burleigh Curtis (1869-1910), Maine and Paris, with the stamp (Lugt 94) on the verso; probably before their posthumous sale at Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, on April 28, 1955; Albert W. Blum (1882-1952), Switzerland and Short Hills, New Jersey, verso with the stamp (Lugt 79b); Christie's London, auction 1540, December 3, 2014, lot 2.Taxation: differential taxation (VAT: Margin Scheme)ne ony lots.