ID 1303438
Lot 2 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
The Holy Family with the three Hares
woodcut
circa 1497
on laid paper, watermark Imperial Orb (Meder 53)
a brilliant, rich and early impression
printing very sharply and evenly, with intense contrasts and great depth
trimmed to or just outside the borderline
in very good condition
Block & Sheet: 15 3/8 x 11 1/8 in. (389 x 281 mm.)
Provenance
Albertina, Vienna, with their de-accession stamp verso (Lugt 5d); their duplicates sale, Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucerne, 28-29 November 1934, lot 142 ('Herrlicher, frühester Abdruck von größter Frische und tadelloser Erhaltung‘) (Mk 1200; to Somary).
Felix Somary (1881-1956), Vienna, Zurich, Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4384); then by descent.
With August Laube, Zurich; acquired from the heirs of the above in 1976.
Private German Collection; their sale, Christie's, London, Genius of the German Renaissance: A Collection of Prints by Albrecht Dürer, 4 December 2007, lot 23 (to Rumbler).
With Kunsthandel Helmut Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 2008; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 102; Meder, Hollstein 212; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 108
Artist: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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Applied technique: | Woodcut |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
Artist: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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Applied technique: | Woodcut |
Art style: | Old Masters |
Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany, Europe |
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