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image of The Rule of Bacchus [left panel]
Workshop of Albrecht Altdorfer
Albrecht Altdorfer (related artist)
German, 1480 or before - 1538
The Rule of Bacchus [left panel], c. 1535
oil on hardboard transferred from panel
left panel: 39 x 15.9 cm (15 3/8 x 6 1/4 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.5.31.a
From the Tour: German Painting and Sculpture in the Late 1400s and 1500s
Object 1 of 12

1891Friedländer, Max. Albrecht Altdorfer, der Maler von Regensburg. Leipzig, 1891: 56, no. 27.
1930Benesch, Otto. "Altdorfers Badstubenfresken und das Wiener Lothbild." Jarbuch der preussischen Kunstsammlungen 51 (1930): 182-186, figs. 5-6.
1930Hugelshofer, Walter. "Die altdeutschen Bilder der Sammlung Scholss Rohoncz." Der Cicerone 22 (1930): 409.
1930Mayer, August L. "Die Ausstellung der Sammlung `Schloss Rohoncz' in der Neuen Pinakothek, München." Pantheon 6 (1930): 304, repro. 299.
1937Heinemann, Rudolf. Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz. Lugano-Castagnola, 1937: 1-2, no. 4, pl. 35.
1939Benesch, Otto. Der Maler Albrecht Altdorfer. Vienna, 1939: 28, 48-49, nos. 71-72, figs. 71-72.
1941Baldass, Ludwig von. Albrecht Altdorfer. Zürich, 1941: 176-178, 194, repro. 306-307.
1956Walker, John. "The Nation's Newest Old Masters." The National Geographic Magazine 110, no. 5 (November 1956): 643, repro. 626.
1956Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Colllection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 20, no. 1, repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 303, repro.
1960Broadley, Hugh T. German Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Nine in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 26, color repro.
1964Stange, Alfred. Malerei der Donauschule. Munich, 1964: 39, 141, no. 25, fig. 118.
1965Ruhmer, Eberhard. Albrecht Altdorfer. Munich, 1965: 52, no. 12, figs. 131a-b, 132.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 7
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:116, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 1, repro.
1975Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer. Die Gemälde. Munich and Zürich, 1975: 59, 130-132, nos. 109-111, repros.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 10, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 147, nos. 156-158, repro.
1977Eisler, Colin. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian. Oxford, 1977: 33-35, figs. 28-30.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 137, no. 150, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 17, repro.
1990Dülberg, Angelica. Privatporträts. Geschichte und Ikonologie einer Gattung im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert. Berlin, 1990: 299-300, no. 349, figs. 173-175.
1993Hand, John Oliver, with the assistance of Sally E. Mansfield. German Paintings of the Fifteenth through Seventeenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 5-11, color repro. 6.

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