ID 887619
Lot 27 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
Melencolia I
engraving, 1514, on laid paper, without watermark, a very fine, early Meder IIa impression, printing silvery, with great clarity and contrast, trimmed inside the platemark but retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderlines on three sides, generally in very good condition
Sheet 242 x 188 mm.
Provenance
Albertina, Vienna (see Lugt 174; with their duplicate stamp, this variant not in Lugt); their sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 3 May 1932, lot 16 ('Ein Abdruck von größter Schönheit') (Rm. 3000).
Henry de Nanteuil de la Norville (1876-1941), Paris; presumably acquired at the above sale, then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 74; Meder, Hollstein 75; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 71
| Artist: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Applied technique: | Engraving |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany |
| Artist: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Applied technique: | Engraving |
| Art style: | Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, Germany |
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