The Dream of the Doctor (Temptation of the Idler)

1498/1499

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): 18.8 x 12 cm (7 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3481

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 70

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

David Bernhard Hausman [1784-1874], Hanover (Lugt 377); Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 82); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1949

  • Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 7B.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 9, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 80, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 107, repro.

2000

  • The Fantastic in Renaissance Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

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.107.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 18.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Conts 4 [?] / J.4942; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 369; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B76; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B-6505

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338507

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