Nov 03, 2016 - Sale 2429

Sale 2429 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 45,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 20,000 - $ 30,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. George on Foot.

Engraving, circa 1502. 110x69 mm; 4 3/8x2 3/4 inches. A brilliant, early and richly-inked Meder a-b impression with very strong contrasts, all the details distinct and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Ex-collection Baron Marochetti, according to a pencil inscription verso (see Lugt 392). With thread margins outside the narrow black border line. Bartsch 53; Meder 55.