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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
Details
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
engraving, circa 1500, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good Meder a impression, trimmed on or just outside the platemark on all sides, a short tear at the right sheet edge, a skilfully repaired area in the dress of the Virgin, some stray spots of black ink, otherwise in good condition, framed
Plate & Sheet 115 x 70 mm.
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
engraving, circa 1500, on laid paper, without watermark, a very good Meder a impression, trimmed on or just outside the platemark on all sides, a short tear at the right sheet edge, a skilfully repaired area in the dress of the Virgin, some stray spots of black ink, otherwise in good condition, framed
Plate & Sheet 115 x 70 mm.
Provenance
Cabinet Brentano-Birckenstock (18th & 19th century), Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); their sale, F.A.C. Prestel, Frankfurt am Main, 16 May 1870, lot 228 ('Très-belle épreuve d'une pièce rare')(Fl. 31; to Helmrich).
Unknown collector’s stamp M in purple (not in Lugt).
Unknown collector’s stamp M in purple (not in Lugt).
Literature
Bartsch 29; Meder, Hollstein 43; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 27
Special notice
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