The Pensive Carpenter

c. 1520/1530

Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

Albrecht Altdorfer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 3.5 × 3 cm (1 3/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 4 × 3.4 cm (1 9/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.419

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. e. 72, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, auction 28, April 13, 1938, lot 5); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1963

  • Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963, no. 152, c.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. e. 72, state only.

Wikidata ID

Q64952555

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