Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 40

Price Realized: $ 4,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Christopher, facing right.

Engraving, 1521. 118x75 mm; 4 5/8x3 inches. A superb, well-inked Meder b impression, with very strong contrasts and before the scratches on the plate across the child's raised fingers and above his head. Trimmed on the plate mark.

Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 52; Meder 52.