Nov 07, 2002 - Sale 1950

Sale 1950 - Lot 19

Price Realized: $ 6,900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 7,000 - $ 10,000
FROM THE MARIETTE COLLECTION ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Peasant and his Wife.

Engraving, circa 1497-98. 108x79 mm; 4 1/4x3 1/8 inches. A superb, well printed and dark Meder a impression with strong contrasts, before any scratches on the plate. Ex-collection Pierre Mariette, dated 1664 in ink (Lugt 190, verso) and unknown collector, indiscernable ink stamp verso. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 83; Meder 86.