Live Auction 1139Old Master Prints
Albrecht Dürer
Lot 17 Property of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, Sold to benefit the acquisition fund

Albrecht Dürer

Hercules Killing Cacus (B. 127; M. Holl. 238)

Closed3 December 2013

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GBP 12,500

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Albrecht Dürer
Hercules Killing Cacus (B. 127; M. Holl. 238)
woodcut, circa 1496, watermark Name of Jesus (M. 306, dated circa 1580), a very good, strong and even Meder a-b impression of the second state (of three), with the gap in the upper border (inked in), but before the wormholes and the gaps at left, trimmed to the borderline, a printer’s crease at lower left, in very good condition
B., S. 387 x 283 mm.

Tomás Harris (1908-1964), London (not in Lugt); then by descent.
With Colnaghi’s, London, on behalf of the heirs of the above.
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts; purchased from the above in 1968; de-accessioned in August 2013.