Albrecht Dürer, circle of - Young Woman Praying - image-1

Lot 1408 Dα

Albrecht Dürer, circle of - Young Woman Praying

Auction 1057 - overview Cologne
14.11.2015, 11:00 - Old Master and 19th Century Paintings and Drawings
Estimate: 20.000 € - 25.000 €
Result: 24.800 € (incl. premium)
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Albrecht Dürer, circle of

Young Woman Praying

Oil on panel. 58.5 x 43 cm.

According to tradition (cf. cat.: Sotheby´s, London, 14.4.1948), the present work was discovered in 1870 in the collection of the Counts of Canossa in Verona by no lesser than John Ruskin and attributed by him to Albrecht Dürer. It was purchased on Ruskin's recommendation by the English collector James Reddie Anderson and later sold again by Sotheby's in 1948 as "An important Durer Portrait".

Provenance

Probably the collection of the Counts of Canossa. - Collection of Jamies Reddie Anderson, Keswick, 1872. - Auctioned by Sotheby´s, London, 14.4.1948, lot 122. - Private collection, Oxford. - Private collection, West Germany.