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Lot 1

German School
early 16th Century
Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a red hat

9 December 2015, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £35,000 inc. premium

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German School, early 16th Century

Portrait of a gentleman, bust-length, in a red hat
bears inscription 'Albert Durer' (on the mount) and 'portrait d'Albert Durer Ne a Nuremburg en 1471 mort en 1528/ Dessine par Lui. De la Collection de Le Grand architect de Merite Moch a la fin de L'anne 1807' (on the reverse of mount)
black chalk, watercolour (possibly later additions)
28 x 20.5cm (11 x 8 1/16in).

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Provenance
Purchased by the present owner's uncle in the 1960s/70s

It has been suggested that the present composition is comparable to the work of the Augsburg Malerbildnisse (see: F. Winkler, Augsburger Malerbildnisse der Dürerzeit, Berlin, 1948).

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