Lot 13
  • 13

Albrecht Dürer

Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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Description

  • Albrecht Dürer
  • The Ill-Assorted Couple (B. 93; M., Holl. 77)
  • ENGRAVING
  • sheet: 150 by 135mm 5 7/8 by 5 1/4 in
Engraving, circa 1495, a Meder I a-b impression, on paper with a Bull's Head watermark (M. 65)

Provenance

Ex coll. Pierre Mariette (L. 1789); David Bernhard Hausmann (L. 377); another unidentified collector's mark (not in L.)

Condition

Trimmed on the borderline at top and bottom, a strip at left and right of subject, approx. 4mm. and 2mm. wide respectively, made-up and skilfully touched-in with pen and black ink.
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