Bagpiper

1514

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): 11.5 × 7.4 cm (4 1/2 × 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3527

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 90


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto Freiherr von der Malsburg [1786-1824], Dresden; (Hollstein and Puppel, Schloss E Sale, Berlin, May 6-8, 1929, lot no. 255); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); 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. 26.

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. 76

Inscriptions

in plate, lower left: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 1. [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: a[1?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 255

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q64952667


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