Apr 18, 2024 - Sale 2666

Sale 2666 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Man of Sorrows Mocked by a Soldier.

Woodcut, 1511. 200x195 mm; 7⅞x7⅝ inches, small margins. A superb, dark and likely a proof impression before the 1511 Latin text edition, with no breaks in the block in the lower clouds and before the worm hole on the soldier's knee, with little to no sign of wear, or an impression from the Latin text edition with the text trimmed upper and lower edges.

Provenance: Giuseppe Storck, Milan, with the inscription and dated 1798 in ink verso (Lugt 2318). Bartsch 4; Meder 113.