Oct 30, 2013 - Sale 2328

Sale 2328 - Lot 3

Price Realized: $ 25,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Holy Family with the Butterfly.

Engraving, circa 1495. 236x187 mm; 9 1/4x7 3/8 inches. A superb, richly-inked Meder a-b impression with very strong contrasts, with all the fine lines distinct, with little to no sign of wear, with the delicate vertical wiping marks in the sky and the drypoint on the monogram showing and with the Virgin's face distinct. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 44; Meder 42.