Albrecht Dürer at Age Fifty-Six
c. 1528
Artist, German, c. 1491 - 1542

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 28.5 x 23.4 cm (11 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1996.4.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Röttinger 1925, no. 280
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Eva S. Dencker, San Jose); purchased by NGA, 1996.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
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
1925
Erhard Schön und Niklas Stör, der Pseudo-Schön. Strassburg, 1925.
Inscriptions
across top in block: Albrecht Dürers Conterfeyt (Albrecht Dürer's Portrait); by later hand, lower left in graphite: 570 / 7614
Watermarks
sword (? cut off)
Wikidata ID
Q75394704