Lot 37: Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder (active circa 1556-1601)

Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder (active circa 1556-1601)
Christ on the Mount of Olives, from: The Engraved Passion
(B., M., Holl. 4; S.M.S. 46)
engraving with watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold, 1508, trimmed to the subject and mounted on vellum, exquisitely handcoloured by Georg Mack around 1588 and initialled GM in gilt, the vellum border recto decorated with a scroll of flowers and berries, insects, a snake, a snail, a bird and two rabbits, verso with a German manuscript text in brown ink and gilt relating to the birth of Christ, the border decorated with a scroll of flowers and multicoloured leaves and various birds, window-mounted on modern laid paper, a short tear in the upper right border, thinly backed, otherwise in very good condition, framed
4½ x 2 13/16 in. (114 x 71 mm.) (print)
6 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (174 x 128 mm.) (vellum sheet)

Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Painted Prints - The Revelation of Colour in Northern European Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 2002-2003, no. 46 (ill.).