Lot 17: Christ at the House of Simon (B. 17; Servolini 29)

Ugo da Carpi (circa 1480 - after 1525) after Raphael (1483-1520)
Christ at the House of Simon (B. 17; Servolini 29)
chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in black and three shades of olive, watermark Crowned Eagle, published by Andrea Andreani, 1609, with his address, a very good impression of this rare print, with considerable gaufrage, trimmed to or just into the subject, an unobtrusive vertical central fold, backed with paper along the sheet edges verso, generally in good condition; with A Sibyl with a Child holding a Torch (B. 6; S. 2), by the same hand after Raphael, chiaroscuro woodcut printed from two blocks in ochre and black, circa 1520, watermark Jug surmounted by a Crown and Crescent with Initials DIV, a fine, strong and even impression of this rare print, with considerable gaufrage, trimmed to or just outside the borderline on three sides, a pen and brown ink line along the upper edge of the subject, a horizontal printer's crease across the subject, generally in very good condition; with The Death of Ananias (B. 27 II; S. 6), by the same hand after Raphael, chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in four shades of brown, in generally good condition
S. 245 x 370 mm. (3)

B. 27: Anonymous, initials HRH (L. 1362)

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.
Jan Johnson in her catalogue of prints by Ugo da Carpi of 1982 records A Sibyl with a Child holding a Torch (B. 6) as a copy after da Carpi, while Bartsch and Servolini considered it to be an autograph work.