Auction 320: Prints | 17 November 2023
Albrecht Dürer

The Carrying of Christ on the Cross

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Albrecht Dürer
1471 – Nürnberg – 1528
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Woodcut on laid paper with watermark “large letter P with small coat-of-arms and letter A” (Meder watermark 325). (Around 1498/99). 42.5 x 31 cm (sheet size). Sheet 7 from the series: The Great Passion.

Result: € 5,715*

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Details

Bartsch 10; Meder 119 III b (from III c); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 160 III b (from III c).

Description

Sheet 7 from the series: The Great Passion. Fine, slightly dry impression. With the watermark required for this condition, which suggests a print from around 1570. With the gap in the halberd blade and with the crack through the monogram. A border up to 23mm wide around the margin line. – Paper slightly foxmarked and with a few light creases. With the smoothed center fold. A tiny tear at the bottom right edge. Remnants and traces of an earlier mounting on the reverse, otherwise in good condition.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

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