May 02, 2017 - Sale 2445

Sale 2445 - Lot 15

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
ALBRECHT DÜRER
The Peasant and his Wife.

Engraving, circa 1497-98. 108x77 mm; 4 1/4x3 1/8 inches. A very good, well-inked Meder b impression, with strong contrasts and with the short, diagonal scratch on the woman's right shoe. Ex-collection Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, with the ink stamp (see Lugt 1073a, verso); and unidentified collector, partial ink stamp verso. With thread margins or trimmed on the plate mark. Bartsch 83; Meder 86.