May 11, 2023 - Sale 2636

Sale 2636 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 6,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Samson Fighting with the Lion.

Woodcut, circa 1496-97. 383x274 mm; 15 1/4x10 3/4 inches, thread margins. A very good, dark and evenly-printed Meder c impression, with strong contrasts. Augsburg chalice watermark (Meder 177, which he dates from circa 1563 to 1600).

Provenance: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, ink stamp verso (Lugt 936); Jerome M. Eisenberg, PhD, New York.

Bartsch 2; Meder 107.