Nemesis (The Great Fortune)

c. 1501/1502

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 33.5 x 23.3 cm (13 3/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 36 x 25.9 cm (14 3/16 x 10 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3485

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 72, state ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

possibly in collection of Oskar Stössel [1879-1964], Vienna; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 12B.

1988

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.

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. 33.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom right, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: stopp [?] [underlined]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 312 [?] [obscured by hinge]

Watermarks

high crown (Meder 20)

Wikidata ID

Q3874565

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