Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Virgin Surrounded by Many Angels.

Woodcut, 1518. 302x216 mm; 12x8 1/2 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2). A very good, dark and well-inked Meder II d impression, with strong contrasts and with the break in the left wing of the child-like angel seated with the flower vase lower center, but otherwise with little to no sign of wear. Crowned coat-of-arms with a fleur-de-lys watermark (Meder 122, which he dates to the late 1500s).

Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 101; Meder 211.