Lot number 212 - Auction 134
'BILDNIS DES PHILIPP MELANCHTON'

ALBRECHT DÜRER (AFTER) 1471 Nuremberg - 1528 ibid. 'PORTRAIT OF PHILIPP MELANCHTON' Engraving on paper with watermark 'City gate with coat of arms and PM'; probably reprinted (see Meder). Print size 17 x 13 cm (f. 33 x 28 x 2 cm). Inscribed '1526 VIVENTIS POTVIT DVRERIVS ORA PHILIPPI MENTEM NON POTVIT PINGERE DOCTA MANVS - AD' in the bottom center of the plate. Verso Luchtenberg collection inventory number 'D/m 3'. Browned, weak print, traces of mounting on verso and part. rest. Mounted in a passe-partout and framed behind glass. Literature: See Meder 104. Provenance: Luchtenberg Foundation.