Claude Mellan

La Sainte Face, or: The Veil of Saint Veronica

Found at Christies, London (Online Auction)
Old Master Prints, Lot 100
01.Jul - 15.Jul.2020
Estimate: 2.000 - 3.000 GBP
Price realised: 6.000 GBP
engraving, 1649, on laid paper, watermark Letters FAD (not in Heawood), a very good impression of the second, final state, printing with a considerable relief verso
Plate 431 x 315 mm.
Sheet 437 x 323 mm.

Upper estimate price exceeded by 100 %.

This artwork by Claude Mellan achieved an unexpectedly high price at Christies in London in July 2020. In the Old Master Prints auction, the work La Sainte Face, or: The Veil of Saint Veronica sold for GBP 6,000.00 (€ 6,692.54) - well above the upper estimate of GBP 3,000.00. Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Claude Mellan; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot Portrait D'Henri-Louis Habert De Montmor (1600-1679) sold at auction in March 2014 with the realized price of EUR 11,875.00.

Oberer Schätzpreis um 100 % übertroffen

Dieses Kunstwerk von Claude Mellan erzielte im Juli 2020 bei Christies in London einen unerwartet hohen Preis. In der Auktion Old Master Prints wurde die Arbeit La Sainte Face, or: The Veil of Saint Veronica für GBP 6.000,00 (€ 6.692,54) versteigert – und damit weit über dem oberen Schätzpreis von GBP 3.000,00. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Claude Mellan; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit Portrait D'Henri-Louis Habert De Montmor (1600-1679) im März 2014 mit dem Hammerpreis von EUR 11.875,00.

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