Portrait of an Unknown Man
probably 1510
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
silverpoint heightened with white on brown prepared paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.8 x 14.7 cm (8 3/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3699
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
P.J. Mariette [1694-1774] (Lugt 2097), Paris; Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy [1764-1829] (Lugt 1710), Aix-en-Provence; (Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, by 1927); Henry Danby Seymour [1820-1877] (Lugt 176), London; purchased 1929 by Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1932d), Alverthorpe, PA; 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. 66.
1935
Master Drawings: selected from the museums and private collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Gallery, NY, 1935, no. 21, repro.
1940
Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 27, repro.
1950
Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 27, repro.
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no cat.
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.
1954
Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.
1955
Drawings and Prints by Albrecht Dürer, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1955.
1961
Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 60, repro.
1962
Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat., only on view for part of exhibition.
1966
Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.
The Inner Circle, Milwaukee Art Center, 1966, no. 31, repro.
1967
Le Cabinet d'un Grand Amateur P.-J. Mariette: 1694-1774; Dessins du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1967, no. 162, repro.
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971, no. X, repro.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico, 1996-1997, pp. 110-111, repro.
Bibliography
1927
Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Die Zeichnung, Heft II, Deutsche Handzeichnungen des XV.-XVIII. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1927, no. 8.
Lippmann, Friedrich and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. 7 volumes. Berlin, 1927: VI, 711.
1928
Beenken, H. "Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen." Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Leipzig (1928): 116, no. 711.
1931
Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben und seine künstlerische Entwickelung. 2 volumes. Berlin, 1931: II, 437, no. 711.
1937
Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürer. 4 volumes. Berlin, 197: 2: no. 280.
1945
Panofsky, Erwin, Albrecht Dürer. 2nd revised ed. 2 vols. London, 1945, 1019.
1952
Musper, H. TH. Albrecht Dürer: Der Gegenwärtige Stand, Der Forschung. Stuttgart, 1952: 257, 333.
1963
Panofsky, Erwin. "An Unpublished Portrait Drawing by Albrecht Dürer." Master Drawings 1 (1963): 35-41, fig. 1.
1974
Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 volumes. New York, 1974: II, no. 1503/38.
1990
Hutchison, Jane Campbell. Albrecht Dürer: A Biography. Princeton, 1990: pl. 2.
1996
Obras Maetras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 110-111.
Inscriptions
upper left in silverpoint, partly illegible: Also pin ich geschtalt ich ... etlich .a. / hanns Durer; falsely signed & dated, upper left: 1503 / AD (in monogram)
Wikidata ID
Q64534004