May 06, 2004 - Sale 2005

Sale 2005 - Lot 15

Price Realized: $ 92,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 30,000 - $ 50,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Eustace.

Engraving, circa 1501. 355x261 mm; 14x101/4 inches, thread margins. A superb, well-inked Meder b impression with strong contrasts overall and with the horizontal scratches above the mountains in the background left and on the arm and shoulder of the saint printing clearly. High crown watermark (Meder 20, which he dates from 1480 to 1525). Ex-collection Abraham G. Gerson (Lugt supplement 1156a, verso) and Hirschler (Lugt Supplement 633a, verso). Bartsch 57; Meder 60.