Melencolia I
1514
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.5 x 19.2 cm (9 5/8 x 7 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1949.1.17
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 75, state i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1924 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1949
R. Horace Gallatin Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1949, no cat.
1964
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Prints from the National Gallery of Art Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1964-1965, no cat.
1967
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century German Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1967, no cat.
1971
Prints by Albrecht Durer, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, 1971, no cat.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
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. 75.
1992
National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 316, repro.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 71, state i/ii.
Inscriptions
in plate, lower right: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center, in brown ink by a later hand: B 16 [?] [crossed out] / [illegible] 19 [illegible]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C. 12819; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 8 [faded]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B 74 [underlined]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: K.4353 / C.4839; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-15, 233
Watermarks
none visible
Wikidata ID
Q1362177