The Turkish Family

c. 1495/1496

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): 10.9 × 7.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.63

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 80

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gabriel Cognacq [1880-1951], Paris (Lugt 538d); (Maurice Rousseau, Paris); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1952; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, 1965, no. 57.

2007

  • Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

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. 12

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.85; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.2252 [underlined] / 600

Markings

none

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18338503

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