ALBRECHT DÜRER Virgin on the Crescent with a Sceptre and a Starry Crown.

ALBRECHT DÜRER
Virgin on the Crescent with a Sceptre and a Starry Crown.

Engraving, 1516. 118x74 mm; 4¾x3 inches, narrow margins. A very good, richly-inked Meder a-b impression with strong contrasts and little to no sign of wear.

Provenance: Vinzent Mayer, New York, with the ink stamp verso (Lugt 2525; according to Lugt, Mayer's collection of works by Dürer was among the best of its day; his estate sale in Berlin in 1919 was spread over three different auction houses and consisted of more than 178 engravings and woodcuts by Dürer). Bartsch 32; Meder 37.