Description: Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels. Heliogravure on laid paper by Charles Amand-Durand after the 1518 engraving by Albrecht Durer. Published 1881. Image: 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. Sheet: 8 1/8 x 5 9/16 in. There is a small tear in the upper left margin away from the image. The tear is sealed with conservation tape on the back and is very difficult to see from the front. Otherwise, excellent condition. Never framed or matted. The Virgin held a variety of roles in late medieval piety, and Dürer refers to a number of them in this print. She is shown as Queen of Heaven, crowned by two angels, and, in the apple that she holds, as the New Testament counterpart to Eve, referring to Eve’s Original Sin for which Christ’s Crucifixion would atone. She wears a circlet of roses, a symbol of her popular identity as the ‘rose without thorns’, while the picket fence shows her as the hortus conclusus (or ‘enclosed garden’) in the biblical Song of Songs, a reference to her virginity. Amand Durand produced his heliogravures after the best early impressions from important collections including those of the Edmond de Rothschild, Eugene Dutuit, Emile Galichon, Lemarié, Firmin-Didot, the British Museum, the Bibliothèque nationale, and the Fitzwilliam Museum. Many collectors preferred Amand Durand’s heliogravures over impressions from original plates that had been worn from repeated printings. Philp Gilbert Hamerton, author of “Etching and Etchers” wrote of Amand Durand’s heliogravures, “They are of the same size as the original etchings which they resemble very closely and are in comparably superior to the poor impressions from the original plates themselves." The etcher Joseph Pennell wrote, “M. Amand Durand made the best photogravures ever produced because he was an artist. No mere photographic or mechanical engraver ever approached him.” Regarding photogravures, Pennell wrote, “The most interesting work was probably done by Amand Durand whose copies of Rembrandt and Durer printed on old paper were so good that the most serious authorities were deceived by them.”
Price: 60 USD
Location: West Hartford, Connecticut
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
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Refund will be given as: Money Back
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1881
Theme: Biblical, Holidays, Religious
Style: Old Master Print
Material: Ink, Paper
Production Technique: Heliogravure
Framing: Unframed
Subject: Angels, Biblical, Maria (biblical)
Time Period Produced: 1850-1899
