Auction 325: Prints | 17 May 2024
Albrecht Dürer

The Entombment

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Auction 325
Lot 188
Albrecht Dürer
1471 – Nürnberg – 1528
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Copper engraving on laid paper with watermark “Ochsenkopf mit Kreuz und Stern” (Meder watermark 62). (1512). 11.7 x 7.5 cm (sheet size).

Result: € 8,255*

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Details

Bartsch 15; Meder 15 a (von e); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 57 a (von e).

Provenienz:
Heinrich Anton Cornill-d’Orville (1790-1875), Direktor des Städel-Museums, Frankfurt am Main (1839-1873), verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 529);
H. G. Gutekunst, F. A. C. Prestel: Auktion der berühmten Albrecht-Dürer-Sammlung des verst. Herrn H. A. Cornill-d’Orville, 14./15. Mai 1900, Stuttgart, aus Los 24;
nicht identifizierte Sammlernotation “Dr. Chider ?” verso (nicht bei Lugt).

Description

Sheet 13 from the set: The Engraved Passion. Brilliant, fine and deep black lifetime impression, with the watermark sought after for this early state, suggesting an impression from 1512 to 1481. Trimmed close to the platemark. – Verso with tiny brown spots and fine pencil notations, otherwise in very good condition. Rarely so beautiful!

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Prints

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