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Sat, Apr 10, 2021 09:00AM EDT
Lot 683

Albrecht Drer

Estimate: $8,000 - $12,000

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(German, 1471-1528) The Prodigal Son (Der Verlorene Sohn) (B., M., H. 28), circa 1496, signed with monogram lower middle "AD", collector's stamp verso (L. 176), engraving on laid paper, 9-3/4 x 7-1/2 in.; wormy chestnut frame, 23 x 17 in.Note: The note verso cites an erroneous collection attribution which has since been corrected by the Lugt database to Alfred Seymour and not his brother H. Duncan Seymour. - Provenance: Alfred Seymour (1824-1888); Clendenen J Ryan (1905-1957), Maryland; M. Knoedler & Co., New York (label verso); Private North Carolina Collection

Condition

a Meder a-b impression, richly inked with lines to right through and above pig lightly present, trimmed to plate mark, with whole plate visible with a tighter, on plate point at the bottom left, point of foxing, hinged in, three pin sized holes at bottom, some pencil inscriptions and stains verso