Live auction - Lot 244
Vanitas.
Subject: [German]
ALDEGREVER, Heinrich
€ 150 / 200
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Lot description
1529
Engraving, 11,5 x 7,5 cm, laid paper, signed and dated in the plate at upper right corner "AG 1529" (trimmed to borderline).
Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.
Allegory of transience and mortality by a female figure standing at a tomb while holding an hour glass in her hand. Behind her a globe with the caption "Respice Finem" (think about the end). Based upon a famous composition of Fortuna by Albrecht Dürer. A sl. grey and worn impression.
Ref. German Hollstein I:134.