The large Horse
Albrecht Dürer (Nürnberg 1471 - Nürnberg 1528)
Lot-No. 201
Proceeds : 7.700 €
Engraving, 16,3 x 11,8 cm, lo. ri. in the plate monogr. AD, up. middle in the plate dat. 1505, on the reverse collector's mark of Henry Harper Benedict (Lugt 2936) as well as collector's mark 'HB', inscribed 'B 97' a. L'L94 a-b', trimmed, min. foxing, framed under glass. - Cat. rais.: Bartsch 97, Meder 94 a/b. - Prov.: Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York; Westphalian curator, thence by descent. - Universal genius of the German renaissance, one of the most important painters a. graphic artists of occidental art history, who gave his name to a whole artistical epoch, the so called 'Dürer-Zeit'. - Mus.: Florenz (Uffizien), Madrid (Prado), Wien (Kunsthistorisches Mus., Albertina), Nürnberg (Germ. Nat.-Mus.), Berlin, Prag. a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. many more.
Albrecht Dürer: The large Horse
Albrecht Dürer (Nürnberg 1471 - Nürnberg 1528)
The large Horse
Lot-No. 201
Proceeds : 7.700 €
Engraving, 16,3 x 11,8 cm, lo. ri. in the plate monogr. AD, up. middle in the plate dat. 1505, on the reverse collector's mark of Henry Harper Benedict (Lugt 2936) as well as collector's mark 'HB', inscribed 'B 97' a. L'L94 a-b', trimmed, min. foxing, framed under glass. - Cat. rais.: Bartsch 97, Meder 94 a/b. - Prov.: Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York; Westphalian curator, thence by descent. - Universal genius of the German renaissance, one of the most important painters a. graphic artists of occidental art history, who gave his name to a whole artistical epoch, the so called 'Dürer-Zeit'. - Mus.: Florenz (Uffizien), Madrid (Prado), Wien (Kunsthistorisches Mus., Albertina), Nürnberg (Germ. Nat.-Mus.), Berlin, Prag. a. others. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. many more.