Lot 70: Master MZ (Matthäus Zasinger) (B. circa 1477)

The Pair of Lovers (B. 16; Lehrs 15)
engraving, circa 1500, watermark Lion with Crossed Lances in a Shield (Briquet 1945; Franche-Comté, 1603), an early 17th century impression, trimmed to the plate, a few pale foxmarks, laid at the sheet edges to a paper support, with Martin Schongauer, The Bearing of the Cross, from The Passion (B. 16), a later impression; Hanns Lautensack, View of a City near a River (H. 31), second state, the letter B in the monogramm partly erased to resemble the first state; Anonymous, German, around 1500, The Baptism of Christ; After Marcantonio Raimondi, Mars, Venus and Eros (cf. B. 257), collotype
S. 150 x 121 mm. (5)

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 17.5% on the buyer's premium.