DURER ALBRECHT (1471 - 1528). Nativity. Monogram and dated 1504 in plate upper on the banner. At the back it shows in pencil: ""1889 and inventory number 258"". The work is probably a postmortem edition by Albrecht Durer, filigree and vergellatura are not clearly visible, as the engraving has been glued. For comparison see the versions preserved at National Gallery of Art, Washington; Met Museum, New York; Musée du Louvre, Collection Edmond de Rothschild, inv. 16652. Bibliography: Bartsch, 1808, VII , p. 31, n° 2 ; Galichon, 1860, p. 45, repr. n° 34 ; Dodgson, 1926, p. 50, repr. n° 38 ; Meder, 1932, p. 70, n° 2 ; Panofsky, 1948, II, n° 109, repr. fig. 116 ; Hollstein, c. 1962, VII, p. 6, repr. n° 2 ; cat. exp. Paris, 1965-1966, p. 14-15, no. 45. . Cm 12.00 x 18.00.
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