Standard Bearer
c. 1502/1503
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 plate mark): 11.6 x 7.1 cm (4 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3480
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 92
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Joseph von Camesina [died 1827], Vienna (Lugt 429), by 1827; (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, auction XLI, May 6, 1929, no. 252); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 30.
1995
Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
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.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 31.
Inscriptions
in plate, lower left, on tablet on tree stump: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in ink by a later hand: Jos v Camesinay / le 15 Mars 1827; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: FL [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 87; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 27 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 252; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: L52
Watermarks
bull's head with flower (Meder 63)
Wikidata ID
Q18338518