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ALBRECHT DÜRER
St. Eustace
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Engraving, circa 1501. 356x262 mm; 14x10
1
/
4
inches.A good, well-inked and dark Meder
h impression with contrasts; with scattered losses and restorations in pen and ink. Single-
headed eagle watermark (Meder 224, which he dates from the first quarter of the 1600s).
According to Bartsch and later cataloguers, the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II (1552-
1612), renowned as a patron of the arts and for his
Kunstkammer
(or cabinet of curiosities),
owned the original copper plate for this engraving and had it gold-plated, then continued
to have impressions printed from it for collectors during the early 1600s. Bartsch 57;
Meder 60.
[7,000/10,000]