ID 1303409
Lot 4 | ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Valeur estimée
$ 300 000 – 500 000
Melencolia I
engraving
1514
on laid paper, without watermark
a superb, early Meder IIa impression
printing sharply and silvery, with intense luminosity and contrasts
with a light plate tone towards the inky plate edges
with wide margins
in very good condition
Plate: 9 ½ x 7 ½ in. (240 x 189 mm.)
Sheet: 11 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. (282 x 218 mm.)
Provenance
Unidentified, paraphe in brown ink verso (not in Lugt).
Unidentified, number '.2.' in brown ink recto (not in Lugt).
Count Alexandre Borisovitch Lobanoff-Rostovsky (d. circa 1880), Saint Petersburg (Lugt 2005); his posthumous sale, Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin, 26 April 1881, lot 150 ('Eines der interessantesten Blätter des Meisters in herrlichem klaren Abdruck. Höchst selten von solcher Qualität') (Mk. 470).
Moriz von Kuffner (1854-1939), Vienna (not in Lugt); then by descent.
With C. G. Boerner, New York, 2001.
Julian Edison (1929-2017), St. Louis, Missouri (not in Lugt).
With C. G. Boerner, New York.
Alan and Marianne Schwartz Collection, Detroit; acquired from the above in 2008; then by descent to the present owners.
Literature
Bartsch 74; Meder, Hollstein 75; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 71
| Artiste: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Gravure |
| Style artistique: | Vieux Maître |
| Genre: | Allégorie |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Allemagne, Europe |
| Artiste: | Albrecht Dürer (1471 - 1528) |
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| Technique appliquée: | Gravure |
| Style artistique: | Vieux Maître |
| Genre: | Allégorie |
| Lieu d'origine: | Europe de l'Ouest, Allemagne, Europe |
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