Adam and Eve
1504
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): 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1949.1.18
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 1, state i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
August Sträter [1810-1897], Aix-la-Chapelle (Lugt 787); Paul Davidsohn [1839 - 1924?], London, Vienna, and Berlin (Lugt 654); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1922 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA (Lugt 1932d, with Gallatin initials), 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1968
L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 93, repro.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 63, repro.
1991
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992, no. 195, repro.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
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.
1990
Russell 1990, cat.no.63.
1991
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992: no. 195.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 39.
Inscriptions
in plate, upper left, on hanging tablet: ALBERT [9 shaped form] / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD [artist's monogram] 1504; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: C.6180 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: K 2581 [underlined] / C 3087; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-15, 224 [upside down]
Markings
R.H.G. NGA stamp
Watermarks
bull's head (Meder 62)
Wikidata ID
Q65067101