GERMAN SCHOOL, FIRST HALF 16TH CENTURY | MERCHANTS COUNTING COINS WITH A BIRDCAGE

The figures in this composition are based on the lower left corner of Albrecht Dürer's Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple from the Marienleben woodcut series, which was first published circa 1511. The verso has remnants of gold decoration typically seen in altarpieces, thus making it likely that this work is a fragment of an altarpiece wing showing the Presentation on the exterior.