ID 1250719
Lot 26 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
The Abduction of Proserpine
etching
1516
on laid paper, watermark Anchor in a Circle (Meder 171)
a very fine Meder Ia impression
just beginning to show the very first, tiny traces of rust on the woman's forehead
printing sharply and strongly, with rich contrasts especially at the centre of the subject
with narrow margins, trimmed to the platemark in places
in very good condition
Plate 306 x 212 mm.
Sheet 307 x 215 mm.
Provenance
Pierre Mariette II (1634-1716), Paris (Lugt 1789), dated 1668.
Norbert Handwerk (b. 1909), Munich & Switzerland (Lugt 4275); his sale, Engravings, Etchings and Drypoints by Albrecht Dürer from a Private Swiss Collection (Collection N.G.H.), Christie's, New York, 19 November 1986, lot 502.
With E. & R. Kistner, Nuremberg.
Private Collection, Switzerland; acquired from the above in 1992; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 72; Meder, Hollstein 67; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 83
| Artiste: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Eau-forte |
| Matériel: | Verre acrylique, Plastique |
| Style artistique: | Vieux Maître |
| Genre: | Peinture mythologique |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Allemagne |
| Artiste: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Eau-forte |
| Matériel: | Verre acrylique, Plastique |
| Style artistique: | Vieux Maître |
| Genre: | Peinture mythologique |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Allemagne |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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