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Lot 5

Albrecht Dürer
(German, 1471-1528)
Three Peasants in conversation unframed

18 December 2018, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)

Three Peasants in conversation (Bartsch 86; Meder, Hollstein 87; Schoch, Mende and Scherbaum 15)
Engraving, circa 1497, on laid paper without watermark, a Meder b impression, trimmed on or just inside the platemark at left and right, trimmed inside the platemark at top and below, a skillfully repaired tear with associated small made-up area in the peasant's sack on the left, a small skillfully repaired tear in the turban of the middle peasant, the lower corners made-up, other minor defects

Sheet 105 x 76mm. (4 x 3in.)
(unframed)

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Provenance
Wilhelm Koller (d. 1871), Vienna (Lugt 2632); presumably his posthumous sale, Vienna 5 February 1872.
Adalbert von Lanna (1836-1909), Prague (a variant of Lugt 2773); presumably his posthumous sale, either Stuttgart 6-11 May 1910, or Berlin 23-24 May 1911.
Sotheby's, London, 15 February 1947, where acquired; thence by descent.

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