Satyr Family
1505
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 mark): 11.6 x 7.1 cm (4 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3562
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 65
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
David Bernhard Hausmann [1784-1874], Hanover (Lugt 377); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1939; 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. 17A.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 309, repro.
1977
Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 55.
1985
Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, plate 47, repro.
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.
1993
Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: 135, pl. 98.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 44.
Inscriptions
in plate, upper right, on hanging tablet: 1505 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper right, in graphite on old hinge: 64
Watermarks
possibly bull's head with five-petaled flower (Meder 62)
Wikidata ID
Q18338443