German School, 17th Century

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German School, 17th Century

A Bird of Paradise

black chalk, bodycolour, watermark gatehouse and letters WE (Bamberg, Würzburg 1636-41)
235 x 90mm.

Provenance

Victor Koch
Raphael Valls

Literature

F. Winkler, Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürer, Berlin, 1937, I, no. 1341, II, pl. 12
S. Killermann, A. Dürers Werk-eine natur-und kulturgeschichtliche Unter-suchung, Regensburg, 1953, p. 75 and note 3
F. Winkler, Albrecht Dürer-Leben und Werk, Berlin, 1957, p. 251
W. Strauss, The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, New York, 1974, VI, pp. 3096-7, no. XW.II/12b, illustrated

Exhibited

Vienna, Albertina, Albrecht Dürer und die Tier und Pflanzenstudien der Renaissance, 1985, no. 32, illustrated in colour (as Anon. German, 2nd half of the 17th Century)

Lot Essay

Although formerly associated with the world of Dürer, to which it harks back, this sheet has been convincingly dated to the next century by Koreny, on the basis of the watermark and the style of the draughtsmanship. The Vienna catalogue cited above includes three further studies of Birds of Paradise, none of which is by the same hand

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