?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER St. Jerome in Penitence.
Engraving, circa 1496-97. 316x226 mm; 12 1/2x9 inches. A brilliant, dark and richly-inked Meder b impression, with very strong contrasts, with some burr in the darkly-shaded areas and with little to no sign of wear, extremely scarce this early. Gothic letter P with a flower watermark (Meder 321, which he dates from around 1500 to 1527). Narrow margins on 3 sides, trimmed just into the image to the uppermost foliage of the tallest tree on the upper edge.
Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 61; Meder 57.
