Five Soldiers and a Turk on Horseback

1495/1496

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 13.4 × 14.8 cm (5 1/4 × 5 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 14.9 × 16.5 cm (5 7/8 × 6 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1944.5.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 81

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Waldburg Wolfegg, Wolfegg (Lugt 2542); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1944.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 4.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.88; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.88.D.6.M.81

Watermarks

Bull's Head (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q65018554

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