*Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617) The Circumcision. (Pl. 4 of The Life of the Virgin). 1594. Burin. 354 x 479. Bartsch 18; Hollstein 12; Strauss 332. Very fine proof on laid paper (watermark: ecu), trimmed inside the plate cut but complete with the tablet, from the 3rd state (of 5), before the Visscher address. Normal median horizontal drying fold. Minor thinning at lower right corner and center, visible through transparency. Small tear at right edge at the height of a mounting tab. Small piece of gummed paper (consolidation) on verso at right head. A few light freckles, including a spot of rust in the man's hat on the left. Ex-coll. Roger Passeron (Lugt 4096), formerly purchased from Galerie R. G. Michel, catalog June 1992, no. 30.