Video: A 500-year-old engraving by a famous artist was discovered at a flea market
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In France, an engraving by the Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer was accidentally discovered at a flea market. The work is called "Virgin Mary Crowned by an Angel" and was created in 1520. Until recently, it was believed that the engraving was lost forever during the Second World War. According to the seller, who sold the engraving to a private collector, he managed to find the work in old things. The identity of the buyer at his request is not disclosed.
The collector who got hold of the engraving quickly recognized the original in it. Mainly he was helped in this by the seal of the State Picture Gallery in Stuttgart on the reverse side of the work (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart). Although he regretted remaining anonymous, he acted very nobly, transferring the work of art to its rightful owner, namely the already mentioned gallery.
According to representatives of the gallery, the image on the engraving has been preserved just fine. Perhaps everything turned out this way, due to the fact that the painting lay folded and wrapped in paper for several decades. Very soon, the work will be put on public display, but the staff of the museum has not yet decided in what form it will be shown.
Recall that Albrecht Durer was born in 1471 in Nuremberg and died there at the age of 56. Today he is considered one of the greatest masters of his era. During his life, he created 374 woodcuts, 83 copper engravings. Thousands of his drawings have also survived.
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