Der Liebesantrag – The Ill-Assorted Couple
Albrecht Dürer
1471 – Nuremberg – 1528
Der Liebesantrag – The Ill-Assorted Couple ca. 1495–96
engraving; 150 x 137 mm (5 7/8 x 5 7/16 inches)
Bartsch 93; Meder 77 I.b-c (of III); Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum
provenance
Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Lucerne
Carl and Rose Hirschler, geb. Dreyfus, Haarlem (Lugt 633a), acquired in August 1924;
thence by descent
exhibition
B.L.D. Ihle/J.C. Ebbinge Wubben, Prentkunst van Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Dürer, Israhel van Meckenem. Uit eene particuliere verzameling, exhibition catalogue,Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, 1955, p. 17, no. 22
A very good impression, showing the vertical scratch in front of the horse but not the one above the head of the man; in excellent condition with the platemark visible all round.