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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Little Courier
engraving, circa 1496, on laid paper, without watermark, a fine Meder b impression, printing very clearly and with strong contrasts, with touches of burr on the grass in the foreground
Sheet 108 x 78 mm.
出版
Bartsch 80; Meder, Hollstein 79; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 10
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拍品专文

Dürer was fascinated by horses and riders, and this is his first proper treatment of the subject in print. It was the first of many, including some of his most important works in both engraving and woodcut, with The Knight and the Lansquenet and Knight, Death and the Devil being the most noteworthy.

Several drawings on the subject are recorded, mostly from his early years, and this engraving is quite closely related to a drawing in the City Museum of Gdansk (W. 9), inscribed by Dürer's hand: "Dz hat wofgang pewrer gemacht Im 1484 Jor" ('wofgang pewrer made this In the year 1484'). Apparently, in this drawing young Dürer had copied an engraving by Wolfgang Beurer, the monogramist WB.

Dürer's little engraving, so full of speed and fun, was very popular and was copied at least five times by other engravers. It is part of a group of small secular prints created around 1496-97, which were popular with a public hungry for depictions of 'real life', and useful to other artists.

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