A sheet with three small heliogravures by Charles Amand-Durand brought together in the same printing: a frieze of Renaissance foliage, St Christopher, and the Virgin and Child with St Anne at the cradle. Lettered at the foot "Heliogravure et imp. A. Durand - Paris".
A sheet with three small heliogravures by Charles Amand-Durand brought together in the same printing: a frieze of Renaissance foliage, St Christopher, and the Virgin and Child with St Anne at the cradle. Lettered at the foot "Heliogravure et imp. A. Durand - Paris".
All three motifs carry in the copper the monogram of Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480-1538), one of the masters of the Danube school and of the so-called Kleinmeister, the little masters of German engraving.
Medium: heliogravure on wove paper
Artist / after: Albrecht Altdorfer (c. 1480-1538)
Engraver: Charles Amand-Durand (1831-1905), Paris
Date: about 1873
Condition: good; a stain at the lower left corner