Old Master Through Modern Prints

Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

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This three-part auction begins with a morning session of Old Master Prints, featuring Dürer masterpieces. The sale continues with a private collection of fine prints by James A.M. Whistler, and concludes with 19th Century, American & Modern Prints.

Sale 2381 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 57,500

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000

ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Jerome in his Study.

Engraving, 1514. 244x188 mm; 9 3/4x7 1/2 inches. A very good, well-inked and evenly-printed Meder e impression, with the diagonal scratch from the table leg to the back of the lion distinct, with good contrasts and the 2 centimeter dark band at the upper edge (to the right of center) still partially visible. Indiscernible coat-of-arms watermark. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark, with narrow to thread margins outside the narrow black border line.

Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 60; Meder 59.

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