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The Virgin and Child seated by a Wall
Details
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Virgin and Child seated by a Wall
engraving, 1514, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine Meder b impression, printing with great clarity, contrast and considerable relief, with a delicate plate tone at lower right and elsewhere, thread margins, trimmed on the platemark in places
Plate 146 x 100 mm.
Sheet 147 x 101 mm.
The Virgin and Child seated by a Wall
engraving, 1514, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine Meder b impression, printing with great clarity, contrast and considerable relief, with a delicate plate tone at lower right and elsewhere, thread margins, trimmed on the platemark in places
Plate 146 x 100 mm.
Sheet 147 x 101 mm.
Provenance
Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717-1794) Genoa (not in Lugt); Austrian ambassador to Venice, collector and art adviser of Albert Casimir, founder of Albertina, Vienna (according to an inscription on the label on the mount); his sale, H. G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 19 November 1872, lot 1778 (RM 150; to Gutekunst).
Herbert Greer French (1872-1942), Cincinnati (Lugt 1307a).
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio (with their stamp and de-accessioned stamp); bequest from the above in 1942.
Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 143.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Herbert Greer French (1872-1942), Cincinnati (Lugt 1307a).
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio (with their stamp and de-accessioned stamp); bequest from the above in 1942.
Christie's, London, 8 July 1998, lot 143.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Literature
Bartch 40; Meder, Hollstein 36; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 73
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