Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg ("Small Cardinal"), 1519

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 14.7 × 9.8 cm (5 13/16 × 3 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 100, state I/II

Accession Number

1943.3.3544

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, top left: ALBERTVS. MI[SERICORDIA]. D[E]I. SA[CRO]. SANC[TAE]. / ROMANAE. ECCL[ESI]AE. TI[TVLI]. SAN[CTI]. / CHRYSOGONI. P[RES]B[ITE]R. CARDINA[LIS]. / MAGNVN[TINENSIS]. AC. MAGDE[BVRGENSIS]. ARCHI= / EP[ISCOPV]S. ELECTOR. IMPE[RII]. PRIMAS. / ADMINI[STRATOR]. HALBER[STADENSIS]. MARCHI[O]. / BRANDENBVRGENSIS [Albert, by God's mercy Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Church titular presbyter cardinal of St Chrysogonus, Archbishop of Mainz and Magdeburg, Primate Elector of the Empire, Administer of Halberstadt, Margrave of Brandenburg]; in plate, bottom: SIC OCVLOS SIC ILLE GENAS SIC / ORA FEREBAT / ANNO ETATIS SVE. XXIX / M. D. X. I. X. [So appeared his eyes, his cheeks, his features at the age of 29 MDXIX]; verso, upper right, in graphite by a later hand: 44 [?] [obscured by old hinge]; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: m500 [?] [crossed out]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B102; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.15207; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: très rare; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 102; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 38; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: r9 [?] [underlined] / Lua [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 18-; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 102; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: très belle Epreuve; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Canse [?] [partially erased]

Provenance

Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan (Lugt 546); D. G. de Arozarena [active around 1860], South America, Paris, and Cuba (Lugt 109); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Archinto, Giuseppe Count
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
de Arozarena, D. G.

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. 89