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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

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06.07.2021 10:00UTC +01:00
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ID 587670
Lot 142 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Hercules at the Crossroads

engraving, circa 1498, on laid paper, watermark High Crown (Meder 20), a very fine, warm and tonal Meder IIa impression, printing with great clarity and contrasts, trimmed to or just inside the platemark, retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline on the sides and below, in very good condition

Plate & Sheet 323 x 227 mm.







Provenance

Dr Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), Lübeck and Dresden (Lugt 791); his sale, Weigel, Leipzig, 25 June 1844, lot 48 (Mk 12-4; 'Vorzüglicher Druck des schönen Blatts, mit Rand').

With Pace Editions, New York.

Acquired from the above by the present owner.





Literature

Bartsch 73; Meder, Hollstein 63; Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 22

Marcus A. Hurttig, Antiquity Unleashed – Aby Warburg, Dürer and Mantegna, The Courtauld Gallery (exh. cat.), London, 2013-14.





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