The Small Horse

Name: ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Brand: The Small Horse
Price: 19000.00 GBP
Availability: SoldOut

Price Realised GBP 23,940

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GBP 15,000 - GBP 25,000

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

The Small Horse

Price Realised GBP 23,940

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

Price Realised GBP 23,940

Closed: 21 Mar 2025

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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
The Small Horse
engraving
1505
on laid paper, watermark Bull's Head (Meder 63)
a very fine, early Meder a impression
printing richly, with great clarity, contrasts and depth, the monogram block slightly slipped in the printing (as usual)
trimmed on or to the platemark, with thread margins in places
in very good condition
Plate 162 x 108 mm.
Sheet 164 x 109 mm.

Unidentified, an indistinct purple stamp verso.
Presumably Karl & Faber, Munich, 17 May 1966, lot 39.
Probably acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owners.

Bartsch 96; Meder, Hollstein 93; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 42

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Lot Essay

The subject of horses and riders preoccupied Dürer for most of his career and features in one of his greatest prints, ().
In the years leading up to 1504 and the engraving (), Dürer had studied and worked extensively on the proportions of the human body. Having mastered the ideal nude, his interest turned once again to horses. While the represents the ideal of the small and elegant race horse of oriental origin, the (Bartsch 97; Meder 94; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 43) represents the Northern European war horse. Although the central subject of the two prints is clearly the physical appearance of the animal, various mythological and allegorical interpretations have been suggested, including the identification of the as Bucephalus, the legendary horse of Alexander the Great.