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The Virgin with the swaddled Child
Details
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Virgin with the swaddled Child
engraving
1520
on laid paper, watermark Small Jug (Meder 158)
a very fine, warm and luminous Meder a-b impression
printing very sharply, with great contrasts and nuanced tonality
trimmed just inside the platemark at right and above, with thread margins at left and below
in very good condition
Sheet 140 x 96 mm.
The Virgin with the swaddled Child
engraving
1520
on laid paper, watermark Small Jug (Meder 158)
a very fine, warm and luminous Meder a-b impression
printing very sharply, with great contrasts and nuanced tonality
trimmed just inside the platemark at right and above, with thread margins at left and below
in very good condition
Sheet 140 x 96 mm.
Provenance
Dr Michael Berolzheimer (1866-1942), Fürth, Munich and Untergrainau, Germany, and Mount Vernon, New York (without mark and not in Lugt).
Private Collection, USA; by descent from the above.
Private Collection, USA; by descent from the above.
Literature
Bartsch 38; Meder 40; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 91
Brought to you by
Stefano Franceschi
Specialist