| LUCAS VAN LEYDEN 1494 - 1533 Leiden |
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| Mohammed and the Monk Sergius |
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Engraving, 1508
Signed with monogram “L” and dated “1508”
28.8 x 21.4 cm.
Watermark; Shield with three
fleur-de-lis and letter c. as wished for in early impressions.
Briquet 1814 (1507), NHD p. 273. 1a. Plate 297. Provenance; private collection U.S.A. |
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Bartsch 126, New Hollstein Dutch (Filedt Kok) 126 Ib (III),
Catalogue Leiden 2011, p. 243 no. 40. |
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Fine silvery impression. Horizontal centrefold reinforced and filled in.
A vertical fold and other small restorations. The watermark is found in other early impressions of 1508,1512 and 1514. |
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It is the first print of Lucas with a date and it is a rather large-sized print. In or around 1508 he also
engraved Suzanna and the Elders and David playing the harp for Saul. It is already mature and very refined in style. Internationally it must have been
recognized. One finds the group of trees used by Marc Antonio Raimondi in a print dated 1510.
The subject shows the sleeping Mohammed while the Monk Sergius is killed by Mohammed’s followers.
For the story read the entry 40 in the catalogue of the Lucas van Leyden exhibition in Leiden in 2011. |
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