Live veiling - Lot 292
[German]
St Catharine.
1505
€ 120 / 200
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Beschrijving lot
Woodcut, 238 x 16 cm, laid paper with watermark (not in Briquet or Heawood), wide margins, monogrammed AD in block (smudged in centre).
Stuck by right corners under passe-partout. Good b/w contrast.
Saint Catherine seated in profile with an open prayer book in her hands. Sword leaning on to the chair and broken wheel in foreground. Baldung Grien signed this with the monogram of his teacher Albrecht Dürer. Later impression of the second state.
Ref. German Hollstein VII:135.2. - Bartsch VII:181.25.