Adam and Eve

1504

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): 24.8 × 19.2 cm (9 3/4 × 7 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3492

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 1, state ii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

L. L. Stein?; purchased 1937 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 28.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 1, repro.

1973

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 45.

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. 39.

Inscriptions

in plate, upper left, on hanging tablet: ALBERT [9 shaped form] / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD [artist's monogram] 1504; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: |42|; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: B.1; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.12023; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: D [illegible]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B1i[superscript]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: a. 26/25 / JL[F?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.5281; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.F.R [collector's mark?]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: K[I?]N: 12.

Watermarks

bull's head (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q64952632

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