Name: Death and the Lansquenet
Brand: ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Price: 8500.00 USD
Availability: SoldOut

ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Death and the Lansquenet
woodcut with letterpress text, 1510, on two sheets of laid paper, the text sheet with an Imperial Orb watermark (Meder 56), a very fine Meder a impression, from the first edition (of two), before any corrections to the text, trimmed close to the text, the sheet edges just touching the text in places, lacking the monogram on the text sheet below, in very good condition
(2)
Block 123 x 85 mm., Sheets 198 x 148 mm. (and similar)

Provenance:
Albertina, Vienna, with their de-accession stamp (Lugt 5d and see Lugt 174); probably sold in their duplicate sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 3 May 1932
Albert W. Blum (1882-1952), Switzerland and Short Hills, New Jersey (Lugt 79 b); his posthumous sale, Sotheby's, New York, 27 February 1988, lot 1111 (US$ 8,800, presumably to Beltrame)

References:
Bartsch, Hollstein 132
Meder 239
Schoch, Mende, Scherbaum 149

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Lot Essay

Dürer presumably published this broadsheet with his woodcut and his own memento mori-poem himself, the letters are those of the Nuremberg printer Hieronymus Höltzel. Examples of the first edition with text are extremely rare. To our knowledge, no early impression such as the present one has been offered at auction within the last thirty year.
The present example is a duplicate from the Albertina in Vienna, the greatest of all repositories of Dürer's prints and drawings.