Max Klinger (1857-1920) 

"Verführung" ["Temptation"]

1884

etching and aquatint on paper

41 x 21,6 cm (plate)

rare trial proof of the third state (before letters)

signed and dated in pencil lower left: M. Klinger. 10. April 1884

inscribed by the artist in pencil below: 3 Zustand 6 Druck. No. 4, Verführung.

Singer (catalogue raisonne) 130 III

A rare trial proof of Plate 4 from Klinger's Ein Leben cycle, outside of The Heinrich Stinnes Portfolio owned by The Daulton Collection.