May 02, 2019 - Sale 2507

Sale 2507 - Lot 20

Price Realized: $ 4,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Lamentation.

Woodcut, circa 1497-1500. 395x286 mm; 15 5/8x11 1/4 inches, narrow to thread margins. A very good, dark and well-inked Meder b proof impression before the 1511 text edition, with very strong contrasts. Partial bull's head with a snake watermark (Meder 81, which he dates from the late 1400s to the early 1500s). Ex-collection Juan Jorge Peoli (Lugt 2020, verso, ink stamp faded); and Robert Hoe III. Bartsch 13; Meder 122.