After Albrecht Dürer

The support consists of three vertical panels joined to the reverse by strips of canvas. The paint surface is largely secure although somewhat abraded in areas and under a dirty varnish. Thorough inspection under UV light is impeded by the varnish although retouchings along the panel joins flouresce. There is a vertical crack of aprox. 20 cms in the upper left corner. Offered in a later wood and plaster gold painted fame.
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A 17th-century copy after Dürer's engraving, dated 1514, of which two versions are held in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (see E. Sayre, Albrecht Durer, exh. cat., Boston 1971, pp. 219-221, cat. nos. 186 & 187, both reproduced).