Inscription
in block, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [reference information in German]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.2; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. V 7 p. 116. no. 2_127 of [?] [illegible]; verso, lower left, in black ink by a later hand: Mo Liphast [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: KK960
Marks and Labels
verso, bottom right, in red ink, unidentifed collector's mark in a circle: F_H [?]
Provenance
Langmaak collection, Hamburg (Lugt 2801a); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; gift to NGA, 1964.
Exhibition History
- 1960
- Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya: Exhibition of Fine Prints, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, 1960-1961, no. 15.
- 1971
- Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 44, repro.
- 1973
- Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 41.
- 1995
- Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Samson and the Lion.
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: no. 107.
- 2001
- Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 127.
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