Four Naked Women
1497
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 image): 19.1 x 13.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3462
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 69
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Lugt 1606 and Lugt 2398); (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, auction XLII, 1929, no. 392); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1964
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 7, repro.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 104, repro.
1999
"Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.
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.104.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 17.
Inscriptions
in plate, upper center, on hanging ball: 1497 / ·O·G·H·; in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: FB [?] [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.75 I / D.14 [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 82 [upside down]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 392-; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-6492 [upside down]
Markings
none
Watermarks
High Tower (similar to Meder 261 and 263)
Wikidata ID
Q7735048