Philip Melanchthon
1526
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 17.5 × 13.1 cm (6 7/8 × 5 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3552
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 104
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; 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. 48.
1953
Renaissance Portraits, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1953, no. 67 on checklist.
1956
Life and Lives in the Renaissance, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and Columbia Museum of Art, SC, 1956, no. 34.
1964
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1967
Master Prints on Biblical Themes, Sloan Galleries at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1967, no cat.
2000
The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.
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. 101.
Inscriptions
in plate, botom: 1526 / VIVENTIS. POTVIT. DVRERIVS. ORA. PHILIPPI / MENTEM. NON. POTVIT. PINGERE. DOCTA / MANVS / AD [artist's monogram] [Dürer could record the details of Philip's appearance from life, but his artist's hand could not grasp his spirit]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B105; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: A882; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 19 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Melanchthon [?] [erased]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 159; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: EE; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 636; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 8003 [upside down]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 16159
Markings
none
Watermarks
small jug (Meder 158)
Wikidata ID
Q64952688