ID 1250735
Lot 29 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
The Virgin with the swaddled Child
engraving
1520
on laid paper, without watermark
a brilliant, luminous Meder a impression
printing with traces of burr and a light plate tone
with a thread margin below, trimmed to or just inside the subject elsewhere
a short repaired tear
otherwise in good condition
Sheet 143 x 95 mm.
Provenance
Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), Dorpat, Bonn and Florence (Lugt 1687); his sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 December 1876 (and following days), lot 428 ('Ausgezeichneter Druck. Ein Risschen zugelegt.')(Mk. 160).
With E. & R. Kistner, Nuremberg.
Private Collection, Switzerland; acquired from the above; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 38; Meder, Hollstein 40; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 91
| Artist: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Applied technique: | Engraving |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany |
| Artist: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Applied technique: | Engraving |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Plastic |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany |
| Address of auction |
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