Three Peasants in Conversation

c. 1497

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 mark): 10.8 x 7.7 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3473

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 87, State b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein Öls, Silesia (Lugt 2669); Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 89); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 9, repro.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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. 15.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B86

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18338501

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