詳情
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Monstrous Sow of Landser
engraving
circa 1496
on laid paper, without watermark
a very good, dark and tonal impression
probably Meder f-g
printing strongly, with good relief and wiping marks in the sky
with narrow margins
generally in good condition
Sheet 120 x 127mm.
來源
Dr. Otto Wedekind (b. 1881), Cologne (Lugt 2595a).
出版
Bartsch 95; Meder, Hollstein 82; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 8
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拍品專文

Early in 1496 there were two records (possibly referring to the same event) of the birth of a 'monstrous' pig with two bodies, one head, two tongues, eight legs and another set of legs protruding upwards from its back. One appeared at Easter, recorded in the Nuremberg Chronicle, the other, in a pamphlet published by Sebastian Brandt in Basel, locates the unusual event in the Alsatian village of Landser, and dates it precisely to 1st March 1496. This usefully provides the first secure date for any of Dürer's early prints.
The years immediately preceding 1500 were rife with dire warnings of the arrival of the millennium - indeed Dürer's Apocalypse (lot 131) explicitly illustrated the fears of those who believed the Last Judgement was upon them - and Brandt in his pamphlet interpreted the birth of the monstrous sow as a portent of things to come. In the present work, however, Dürer was clearly less interested in the chiliastic aspect of the event than ion the description of a natural curiosity, to which he added a coastal landscape so typical for his prints, including a castle, some trees and mountains in the distance.

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