May 02, 2019 - Sale 2507

Sale 2507 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Virgin on the Crescent with a Crown of Stars.

Engraving, 1508. 118x75 mm; 4 3/4x3 1/8 inches, thread margins. Second state (of 2), with the outer halo completed. A superb, richly-inked Meder a impression in this state, with the vertical scratch in the halo at the right and with very strong contrasts. Ex-collection Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin (Lugt 2612, verso) and Bernhard Hausmann (Lugt 377, verso). Bartsch 31; Meder 32.