ALBRECHT DÜRER | THE COOK AND HIS WIFE (B. 84; M., HOLL. 85)

Property from the Collection of the Late Walter L. Strauss
ALBRECHT DÜRER
1471 - 1528
THE COOK AND HIS WIFE (B. 84; M., HOLL. 85)

Engraving, circa 1496, a fine, rich Meder a-b impression, printing with contrasts and three-dimensionality, with the scratch on the woman’s right shoulder, on paper with a fragment of a watermark, unframed
sheet: 108 by 78mm 4¼ by 3in

Condition Report:
Trimmed to or on the borderline, in generally good condition, the borderline reinforced with pen and ink, one or two further tiny touches of pen and ink, a small repair at the upper right corner, a reinforced area at lower right verso, a nick in the sheet edge at lower right, the sheet previously treated (affecting the inscription verso, which has been retraced in graphite), unframed.

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Provenance:
Ex coll. Pierre Mariette II (ink inscription verso dated 1668) (cf. L. 1789)