The Cook and His Wife

c. 1496/1497

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 11 × 7.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1945.5.62

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 85

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wilhelm August Ackermann [1793-1865], Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791); Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein Öls, Silesia (Lugt 2669); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 58.

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 4A.

1971

  • Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 8, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 123, repro.

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. 13.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.84; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 10116b [underlined]

Watermarks

bull's head (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q65018555

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