Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 9,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Apollo and Diana.

Engraving, circa 1504. 115x72 mm; 4 1/4x2<7/8> inches, thread margins. A very good, well-inked Meder b impression with strong contrasts, witht the shading of the figures' torsos distinct and with the delicate diagonal scratch across Diana's chest.

Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund.

The composition for this engraving and The Satyr's Family, proceeding lot, are related to engravings by the Venetian printmaker Jacopo de'Barbari (see lot 56). Bartsch 68; Meder 64.