Nov 02, 2021 - Sale 2585

Sale 2585 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 7,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Meeting of Joachim and Ann at the Golden Gate.

Woodcut, 1504. 322x210 mm; 12 3/4x8 1/4 inches, thread margins. A superb, dark Meder a proof impression, before the 1511 Latin text edition, with very strong contrasts and no sign of wear, consistent with the earliest impressions of this subject. Bull's head watermark (Meder 62, which he dates from the late 1400s/early 1500s and notes for lifetime impressions). Meder 191; Bartsch 79.