Nemesis (The Great Fortune)

c. 1501/1502

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 33.4 x 23 cm (13 1/8 x 9 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.1.21

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 72, state ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Balmanno [1780-1866], London (Lugt 213); Louis Xavier Alcide Donnadieu [1791-1861], London and Paris (Lugt 107); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1930 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 139, 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.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.139.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 33.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom right, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand:77; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Robert Balmanns F Sck 7 Crasr [?] Street London / 1828; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: A de D; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-15, 227 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR 31514

Watermarks

high crown

Wikidata ID

Q3874565

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