Oct 17, 2024 - Sale 2682

Sale 2682 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 7,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 8,000 - $ 12,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Nativity.

Woodcut, circa 1503. 297x212 mm; 11¾x8½ inches, thread margins. A brilliant, early Meder a proof impression before the 1511 Latin text edition with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bull's Head watermark (Meder 62, which he dates from the late 1400s and cites for proof before text impressions of this subject). Bartsch 85; Meder 197.