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[HOLBEIN LE JEUNE, Hans (c. 1497-1543)]

Lot 19
29.10.2024 14:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 19 | [HOLBEIN LE JEUNE, Hans (c. 1497-1543)]
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€ 10 000 – 15 000
[HOLBEIN LE JEUNE, Hans (c. 1497-1543)]
Historiarum veteris Instrumenti icones ad vivum expressae. Lyon : Melchior et Gaspar Trechsel pour François Frellon, 1538.

Précieux exemplaire, grand de marges, dans sa superbe reliure vénitienne de l'époque - des bibliothèques Montgermont et Rahir.
L'édition est illustrée de bois gravés par Hans Lützelburger et Veit Specklin d'après les dessins originaux de Hans Holbein le Jeune. Les quatre premières compositions sont reprises de sa célèbre Danse des morts (1524-1525); et le reste des illustrations seront ensuite utilisées dans une édition de la Bible.

L'exemplaire, remarquable par l'ampleur de ses marges, est vêtu de sa première reliure, attribuable au célèbre atelier vénitien dit du "Fugger binder", du nom du bibliophile Marcus Fugger, son principal commanditaire. Si l'écu resté vierge sur le plat supérieur ne donne pas d'informations de provenance, le fer qui orne le plat inférieur est éloquent : parfois qualifié de "Venus anadyomène" ou Vénus marine, il faut, plus probablement, y voir une représentation de la Fortune, agitant une voile de navire. Cette iconographie est bien entendu à relier au destin de la ville de Venise, la Sérenissime devant sa fortune à son commerce maritime florissant. Un fer identique orne la reliure d'une commission dogale de 1529, conservée au Museo Correr (reliure reproduite dans de Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia, II, n°1817, planche CCCXLIV).

USTC 147427 ; Graesse, III, p. 317 ; Brunet, III, col. 252 ("les exemplaires en sont fort rares"). Pour un fer similaire, voir : Needham, Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings : 400-1600, cat. 74 et Hobson, Renaissance Book Collecting, pp. 121-122.

Petit in-4 (198 x 132 mm) de 48 ff., signés A-M4. Marque de l'imprimeur au titre, 92 bois gravés d'après les dessins de Holbein (quelques mouillures et taches, petit manque à l'angle inférieur droit du feuillet M2).
Reliure vénitienne de l'époque : veau brun, plats ornés en leur centre d'un écu doré dont le champ est peint en vert (supérieur) et d'un fer doré représentant Fortune et sa voile (inférieur), riche décor d'encadrements à froid et dorés quadrilobés avec fleurons dorés, dos à nerfs orné à froid et doré (habiles restaurations aux coiffes, coupes et coins). Emboîtage et étui signés de Maylander.
Provenance : les armes qui ornaient à l'origine l'écu du plat supéreur ont été repeintes, et l'écu "barré" d'une griffure oblique -- Louis Leboeuf de Montgermont (1841-1918 ; sa vente, Paris, 1914, n°16) – Edouard Rahir (1862-1924 ; sa vente, II, lot n°550, vendu 26,000 francs).

A very attractive copy, with wide margins, in its original Venetian binding, probably executed by the Fugger binder workshop. The binding sports a gilt tool of Fortune with her sail, a symbol of Venice. From the Montgermont and Rahir libraries.
Artist:Hans Holbein II (1497 - 1543)
Genre:Religious genre
Place of origin:France
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