Live Auction 2778Albrecht Durer: Masterpieces from a Private Collection
Albrecht Dürer
Lot 60

Albrecht Dürer

The Virgin and Child crowned by one Angel (B. 37; M., Holl. 41; S.M.S. 92)

Closed29 January 2013

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USD 17,500

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Albrecht Dürer
The Virgin and Child crowned by one Angel
(B. 37; M., Holl. 41; S.M.S. 92)
engraving, 1520, without watermark, a very good, warm Meder a impression, with thread margins, a short, very skilfully repaired tear at the upper sheet edge at centre, otherwise in very good condition
P. 5 3/8 x 3 13/16 in. (136 x 97 mm.)
S. 5 7/16 x 3 7/8 in. (138 x 98 mm.)

Specialist note

As the final essay on the theme of the Madonna and Child, the present work is a summary of many of the earlier versions. Having found a solution for the lighting of the scene, Dürer reintroduces the crowning angel, the landscape in the distance and even the little songbird, reinstating the symbolic richness and detail of the earlier Madonnas whilst maintaining the monumental quality of more recent works.