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Lot 261: WIERIX, Johannes. After Albrecht Dürer Melancolia I. 1514 [1602] Engraving,

Est: €2,000 EUR - €2,500 EURPassed
Arenberg AuctionsBrussels, BelgiumOctober 19, 2019

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Description

WIERIX, Johannes. After Albrecht Dürer Melancolia I. 1514 [1602] Engraving, 18,7 x 23,7 cm, lettered on image 'MELENCOLIA I', signed with Dürer's monogram and dated '1514' bottom right, Wierix' signature is as often removed (trimmed outside the borderline). Stuck by upper corners under passe-partout. Excellent copy made by Wierix in 1602 of Dürer's fabulous allegorical representation of the melancholic temperament as a woman wearing a wreath seated amongst a bell, an hourglass, scales, a magic square, carpentry tools and a sphere. Without the filling between "Melancolia" and "I" and without the correction of the numbers characterising Dürer's second state, all typical for Wierix' edition although his signature was -as often is the case- removed. Ref. Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1556. - Hollstein (German) VII: 75.

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Auction Details

Prints & Master drawings: Old and Modern

by
Arenberg Auctions
October 19, 2019, 01:00 PM CET

Wolstraat 19/2, Brussels, Brussels-Capital Region, 1000, BE

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