Male Nude Holding a Mirror [recto]

c. 1500

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper; the paper has been pricked in several places with the points of a pair of compasses and indented lightly with a stylus

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.7 x 14.1 cm (10 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.11.a

Associated Artworks

Male Nude with a Lion [verso]

Albrecht Dürer

1500


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Przeworsk, Poland [1770-1850], by 1823; transferred by his heirs to the Lubomirski Museum in the Ossolinski Library, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) 1869 (inv. 8296); on 2 January 1940, by decree of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ossolinski Library ceased as a separate institution and was combined with other libraries into the L'vov branch of the Library of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences; German troops took L'vov in June 1941, and in July K. Muhlmann, the German special representative for works of art, took the Lubomirski Dürer drawings to Adolf Hitler in Berlin; in the possession of the German military until 1945, mainly at the Reich Chancellery; discovered in a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria, and taken to the Munich Central Collecting Point, April 1945; restituted to Prince Georg Lubomirski, Switzerland, 1950; (Colnaghi's, London, 1954); Dr. and Mrs. Vitale Bloch (sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 June 1962, lot 87); private collection, Nuremberg; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • Albrecht Dürer Ausstellung, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg, 1928, no. 359.

1957

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P.&D. Colnaghi, London, 1957, no. 27.

1961

  • German Art, 1400-1800 from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1961, no. 113.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 480.

1986

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 61.

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich only, 1986, no. III.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 46.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 57.

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 2.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 18.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2013

  • Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1927

  • Lippmann, Friedrich and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. 7 volumes. Berlin, 1927: VI, 739.

  • Reitlinger, H.S. "An Unknown Collection of Dürer Drawings." The Burlington Magazine 1 (1927): 159.

  • Winkler, Friedrich. "The Collection of Dürer Drawings at Lemberg (Galicia)." Old Master Drawings 5 (1927): 16.

1928

  • Beenken, H. "Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen." Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Leipzig (1928): 116.

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 2 volumes in 3. Augsburg, 1928-34: no. 169

1929

  • Gebarowicz, M. and Hans Tietze. Albrecht Dürers Zeichnungen im Lubomirski-Museum in Lemberg. Vienna, 1929: no. 5.

1931

  • Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben und seine künstlerische Entwickelung. 2 volumes. Berlin, 1931: II, 145, 195-6, 568, no. 493.

1936

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürer. 4 volumes. Berlin, 1936-9: 2: no. 419.

1938

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 3 vols. Basel and Leipzig, 1937: 1:no. 169 (recto), 170 (verso).

1942

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Hans Süss von Kulbachs and Hans Leonard Schäufeleins. Berlin, 1942: under no. 8.

1943

  • Friend, Albert M., Jr. "Dürer and the Hercules Borghese-Piccolomini." Art Bulletin 25 (1943): 43-9, fig. 6.

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. 2 vols. Princeton, 1943: 86, 262, 266, no. 1596 (recto), 1597 (verso), mentioned under no. 1627(6).

1952

  • Musper, H. TH. Albrecht Dürer: Der Gegenwärtige Stand, Der Forschung. Stuttgart, 1952: 112, 332.

1956

  • Fröhlich-Bum, L. "Handzeichnungen alter Meister in London." Die Weltkunst (1956): 10.

1957

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürer: Leben und Werk. Berlin, 1957: 146.

1964

  • Schadendorf, Wulf. Eine Proportionsstudie aus dem Jahre 1500. Fürth, 1964.

1966

  • Rupprich, Hans. Dürer: Schriftlicher Nachlass. Berlin, 1966: II, 37.

1974

  • Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 volumes. New York, 1974: II, no. 1500/36 (recto), 1500/37 (verso).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996: nos. 18a and 18b.

  • Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17 (September-October 1995): 49-53.

1997

  • Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 56, fig. 15, 17.

2013

  • Robison, Andrew. "The Drawings of Albrecht Dürer." In exh. cat. Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013: 28, repr. pp. 30-31 (recto and verso)(color).

Inscriptions

lower left verso in pen and brown ink: AD

Wikidata ID

Q64534011


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