Apr 29, 2015 - Sale 2381

Sale 2381 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Jerome by the Pollard Willow.

Drypoint, 1512. 208x178 mm; 8 1/4x7 inches. Third state (of 3). A good Meder b impression in this state. High crown watermark (Meder 30, which he dates to circa 1550). Ex-collection Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Lugt 1235 and 1328, verso). Trimmed on or just inside the plate mark.

An extremely scarce print, one of only three known drypoints by Dürer. We have found only 8 other impressions of this subject at auction in the past 30 years. Bartsch 59; Meder 58.