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Property from a Private Family Collection

Albrecht Dürer

The Dream of the Doctor (Bartsch 76; Meder, Hollstein 70; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 18)

Live auction begins on:

April 14, 04:00 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Bid

35,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a Private Family Collection

Albrecht Dürer

1471 - 1528

The Dream of the Doctor (Bartsch 76; Meder, Hollstein 70; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 18)


engraving on laid paper

a very fine, rich Meder a-b impression, printing with three-dimensionality and burr around the edges of the cushion and the demon

sheet: 7 ½ by 4 ¾ in. 190 by 122 mm.

Executed circa 1498.

Ex coll. Karl Ferdinand Friedrich von Nagler (L. 2529)

Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (L. 1606 and 2482)

Acquired in the Netherlands in the 1930s

Thence by descent