Lot number 3535 - Auction 141
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ALBRECHT DÜRER 1471 Nuremberg - 1528 ibid. SELF PORTRAIT Oil tempera on wood panel. 30 x 24 cm (F. 47 x 41 cm). Monogrammed 'AD' upper right centre. Inscribed on old paper label on panel: 'Portrait of Albrecht Dürer by himself'. Old wax seal (uninterpreted), paper label of W. Freemann & Son LTD London. Further old paper label James Bourlet & Sons Limited. Part. min. old rest., slight old retouching. Frame. Possibly identical to the self-portrait of the twenty-six-year-old Dürer mentioned in the Imhoff inventories (cf. Anzelewsky, Fedja: Albrecht Dürer. The painterly oeuvre. S. 155 Provenance: Duke of Buckingham Stowe House. Sir Thomas Baring Straton Hall - Lord Franton, London - The Glenwell sale 1945 Old Rhenish private collection.