$7,000
Estimate: $6,000 - $10,000
European Art & Old Master Paintings
Auction: February 18, 2020 12:00:00 PM EDT
1512. Drypoint on laid paper, a very good Meder A (possibly A-B) impression of this rare print; with various pencil inscriptions verso (unknown collector, not in Lugt)
Image size: 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 in. (11.4 x 7.3cm)
Sheet size: 5 1/8 x 3 7/16 in. (13 x 8.7cm)
[Bartsch 21; Meder 21]
Provenance: Private Collection, Oklahoma.
NOTE:
According to Erwin Panofsky this is Dürer's earliest drypoint. It is also the only one of Dürer's three drypoints with a date and monogrammed signature. A related drawing by Dürer, Man of Sorrows, is in the collection of The Louvre, Paris (W. 606).