May 08, 2018 - Sale 2477

Sale 2477 - Lot 43

Price Realized: $ 2,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Bartholomew.

Engraving, 1523. 123x77 mm; 4 7/8x3 1/8 inches. A very good, well-inked Meder b impression, with the fine vertical wiping scratches faintly visible in the lower right background and with very strong contrasts. Ex-collection Martin-von-Wagner Stiftung, Museum der Universität Würzburg (Lugt 2541c, verso). With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark.

Property of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, sold to benefit the acquisitions fund. Bartsch 47; Meder 45.