5071 - Dürer, Albrecht

Dürer, Albrecht St. Jerome in His Cell. Copperplate engraving. 24.6 x 18.7 cm. 1514. B. 60, Meder 59 b-c (from f). Mark: Krüglein (Meder 158). Before the bow scraper and the vertical line above the box door. An absolutely excellent print, with warm tones and many details still wonderfully clear; as Meder writes, “harmonious and sunny.” With a very fine border around the mounting line on three sides; at the bottom, it is cut minimally just inside this line. Only slightly dusty; on the reverse, an imperceptibly smoothed center fold; mainly just faintly stained on the reverse; a small, retouched tear on the bench near the cushion; isolated marginal rubbing; a tiny missing spot in the white border in the center left; otherwise only very inconspicuous and carefully applied spot repairs; otherwise a very fine copy. From the collections of Heneage Finch, Earl of Aylesford (Lugt 58), and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, bearing their sale stamps (Lugt 1606 and 234). - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.