An Oriental Ruler Seated on His Throne

1523

after Albrecht Dürer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mr. Robert M. Light

  • Dimensions

    overall: 31.2 x 19.6 cm (12 5/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1975.45.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Greffier Fagel; Lord Northwick (sale Christie's, London, 5 July 1921); Capt. H. S. Reitlinger; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 22 November 1974); Robert M. Light; gift to NGA in 1975.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

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

Bibliography

1922

  • Dodgson, Campbell. "Notes on Dürer III." Burlington Magazine 40 (1922): pp. 17ff., pl. 1b.

1926

  • Röttinger, Heinrich. Dürers Doppelgänger. Strasbourg, 1926: 98-100 (as a copy after the engraving with the missing parts filled in).

1935

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erica Tietze-Conrat. "'The Sultan and His Mistress,' by Albrecht Dürer." Print Collectors Quarterly 22 (1935): 213ff.

1936

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. Berlin, 1936, 1: 57, no. 77.

1938

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erica Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. Basel and Leipzig, 1938, 2: 143, no. 7a.

1943

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. Princeton, 1943, 2: 124, no. 1255.

1973

  • White, Christopher. "An Oriental Ruler on His Throne and The Entombment: Two New Drawings by Albrecht Dürer." Master Drawings 2, no. 4 (1973): 365ff., appendices 1 & 3.

Inscriptions

upper right in black ink: 1523

Wikidata ID

Q64533414

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