Albrecht Dürer at Age Fifty-Six

c. 1528

Erhard Schön

Artist, German, c. 1491 - 1542

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 28.5 x 23.4 cm (11 1/4 x 9 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.4.1

  • 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


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