Apollo and Diana

1504/1505

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows two figures in a scene. The left figure is standing up, facing right with a slight turn to the left. The person is depicted in full-body view, with muscular features, long curly hair, a laurel wreath, and holding a bow. The right figure is seated on the ground, partially visible from the waist up, with distinct facial features, long straight hair held back by a band with a jewel, and holding foliage or a plant. The seated figure has a relaxed posture. The background has a lightly textured surface, and the ground where the seated figure rests shows a lion's pelt with a visible lion's head. A monogram or artist's signature is in the bottom right corner of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.6 x 7.2 cm (4 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3486

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 64

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Albert W. Scholle [1860-1910], New York; Clendenin J. Ryan Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 78); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

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.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print of the Western World. Madison, WI, 1996: 156; fig.3.21, 157.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 38.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower left, on sheet on ground: AD [D corrected] [artist's monogram]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 1668 [?]/NR [?]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B3

Markings

none

Watermarks

Bull's head (Meder 63)

Wikidata ID

Q18338517

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