May 06, 2004 - Sale 2005

Sale 2005 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 6,210
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Holy Family with the Butterfly.

Engraving, circa 1495. 237x186 mm; 93/8x73/8 inches, thread margins. A very good, dark and strongly inked Meder f impression, with the delicate diagonal scratch to the right and below God the Father and the dove printing clearly. Small bishop's coat-of-arms watermark (Meder 39). Ex-collection Carl Schlösser (Lugt 636, verso) and Hirschler (Lugt Supplement 633a, verso). Bartsch 44; Meder 42.