Albrecht Dürer
St Anne and the Virgin with the Child
Details
Bartsch 29; Meder 43 a (von c); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 27 a (von c).
Provenienz:
Ralf Leopold von Retberg (1812-1885), München, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 2822);
Max Paul Albert von Baldinger-Seidenberg (1837-1904), Stuttgart, verso mit dem Stempel (Lugt 212).
Description
A superb Meder a lifetime impression, with excellent contrasts. Mary’s protruding hair clearly marked and before the scratch above her head. Trimmed on the platemarks.
Dürer, who at the turn of the century, at the height of the cult of the ancestors, intensively explored the subject of the picture, has found a completely original solution here. Dürer’s unconventional view of the figures in lively movement clearly sets him apart from the traditional pictorial formulations with the hierarchically arranged group of three. – The paper along the edges partially beckend up to approx. 2 mm and inconspicuously redrawn, otherwise in good condition.
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