The Satyr Family

Name: ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Brand: The Satyr Family
Price: 4200.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 5,292

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GBP 5,000 - GBP 7,000

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

The Satyr Family

Price Realised GBP 5,292

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

Price Realised GBP 5,292

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Satyr Family
engraving
1505
on laid paper, without watermark
a very good, clear Meder c impression
trimmed to or fractionally inside the subject
the sheet repaired and thinly backed
Sheet 115 x 71 mm.

Bartsch 69; Meder, Hollstein 65; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 44

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Lot Essay

Similar in composition and almost identical in size, Panofsky considered the as a companion piece to (Bartsch 68; Meder 64; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 38) ), and saw them as expressions of two ideals of the Renaissance; the Olympian and the Idyllic. It is also a response to an engraving of the same theme by Jacopo de' Barbari, who had moved from Venice to Germany in 1500. The - which should be more correctly titled is also related to (see lot 16). Formally, the placement of the pair of nudes before a background of a dark forest is reminiscent of , created one year earlier, and it could be described as a bucolic, pagan variation on the same theme; man and woman in a state of natural innocence.