May 21, 2020 - Sale 2537

Sale 2537 - Lot 127

Price Realized: $ 4,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
Christ before Caiaphas.

Engraving, 1512. 117x73 mm; 4 5/8x2 7/8 inches, thread margins. A brilliant, richly-inked, early Meder a impression, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject (conforming to Meder's description of early impressions of this subject as "Jet-black"). Ex-collection Artaria & Co., Vienna (Lugt 90, verso); and Franz Jozef von Enzenberg (Lugt 845, verso). Bartsch 6; Meder 6.