Live auction - Lot 319
[German]
The Sea Monster.
LADENSPELDER von Essen, Johann Hans. After Albrecht Dürer
€ 1.500 / 2.000
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Lot description
Engraving, 18,2 x 24,7 cm, signed in the plate with Dürer's monogram and "IHVE" (trimmed just outside the borderline).
Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout.
Reversed copy of Dürer's enigmatic Sea Monster, showing in the foreground a nude female being abducted. The engraver, born in 1512, makes one of the earliest copies of this composition made by Dürer around 1498.
Ref. Hollstein (German) VII: 66 (copy). - Nagler Monogrammisten 2614-4.
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