Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Glorification of the Virgin.

Woodcut, circa 1504. 302x212 mm; 12x8 3/8 inches, narrow margins. A very good, dark and evenly-printed Meder c impression after the Latin text, with the single fine vertical crack in the block, center to the left of the Virgin's head. Double-headed eagle watermark (Meder 222, which he dates to the late 1500s).

Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 95; Meder 207.