Lot 234
  • 234

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • The Virgin and Child with the Monkey (B. 42; M., Holl. 30)
  • 192 by 123mm; 7 5/8 by 4 7/8 in
Engraving, circa 1498, a fine Meder a impression, with brilliant contrasts, on paper with a Bull's Head watermark (M. 62), with small margins, pale foxing, unobtrusive vertical folds, a minute tear at lower right edge of sheet, otherwise in good condition

Provenance

Ex coll. J. D. Böhm (L. 272); C. J. Palmer and Sir John Stuart Hippisley (L. 2946, 1535) and another unidentified (not in Lugt)

Condition

Please note that there is a possible small repair at lower right margin corner.
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