(attrib.) Johann
Friedrich Leonart (aka Johann
Friedrich Leonard; Johann Friedrich Leonhart)
(1633–1680/87)
“Woman with Coiled Hair after Dürer” (aka “Portrait
of Catharina Fürleger”), c1660, engraving in reverse after Wenceslaus Hollar’s (aka Václav Hollar; Wenzel Hollar)
(1607–1677) etching (Pennington 1536 [p. 268]), after Albrecht
Dürer's (aka Albrecht Duerer) (1471–1528) painting
dated 1497. See the description of this print offered by the British Museum
(without attribution Leonart): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Bb-8-294.
Stipple, etching and engraving on laid paper
with wide margins.
Size: (sheet) 33.3 x 22 cm; (plate) 16.5 x
11.4 cm; (image borderline) 14.6 x 11 cm.
Inscribed in plate: (on banderole at upper
right) “1487”; (on plaque hanging below banderole) Fürleger family coat of
arms; (on book held by wooden sculpture near window) monogram of Albrecht Dürer;
(below image borderline) “Also bin ich gestalt, In achtzehe Jahr alt” (So I am
in shape, at eighteen years old).
Condition: a strong impression with generously
wide margins. There are partially erased collectors’ notes recto and verso, otherwise the sheet is in excellent condition for its considerable age with no
tears, holes, folds, significant stains or foxing.
I am selling this beautifully executed
engraving (with etching) after Dürer's painting and in reversed direction to Hollar’s etching showing a young woman with braided hair wrapped around her
head (symbolic of being available for marriage) and holding sprigs of sea holly
and Southernwood (symbolic of conjugal fidelity and eroticism [see https://www.wga.hu/html_m/d/durer/1/02/03hair_d.html]),
for the total cost of AU$337 (currently US$236.29/EUR225.92/GBP191.06 at the
time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to
anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by
some countries.
If you are interested in purchasing this interesting
portrait charged with symbolism and showing what I assume to be a view of the old
city of Nuremburg with its defensive walls as seen by Dürer in 1497, please
contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
This print has been sold
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