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Albrecht Dürer

A Pastoral Landscape with Shepherds Playing a Viola and Panpipes, 1496/1497

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volume Title

Idylls and Other Texts

Medium

watercolor and gouache heightened with pen and ink and gold, pasted back onto page 1of "Idylls and Other Texts"

Dimensions

page size: 31 x 20.3 cm (12 3/16 x 8 in.)
overall size (book closed): 32.4 x 21.6 cm (12 3/4 x 8 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection

Accession Number

2005.1.1.a

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

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Provenance

Willibald Pirckheimer [1470-1530]; then by descent, possibly through Pirckheimer's sister, Barbara Straube [died 1560] or his eldest daughter, Felicitas; the colletion reunited through Felicitas' husband, Willibald Imhoff; then by descent to Hans Hieronymous Imhoff; by whom sold to Matthäus van Overbeck [died 1638], 1634; Earl of Sunderland (library shelfmark, B4:36, on inside front cover) (sale, London, Puttick and Simpson, 16 March 1883, lot 12, 345, to Quartich); Howell Wills (sale, London, Sotheby's, 11 July 1894, lot 831, to Quaritch, from whom acquired by Yates Thompson in 1897); Henry Yates Thompson (sale, London, Sotheby's, 3 June 1919, lot 29, bought in and subsequently presented by Yates Thompson to the London Library); London Library (sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 June 1966, lot 66); purchased by Edelmann; Schickedanz collection; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Edelmann
Imhoff, Felicitas Pirckheimer
Imhoff, Hans Hieronymus
Kistner, Rolf
London Library
Overbeck, Matthaeus van
Pirckheimer, Willibald
Schickedanz
Straube, Barbara
Sunderland, Earl of
Wills, Howel
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian
Yates Thompson, Henry

Exhibition History

1897: Monuments in Typography, Quaritch, London, 1897, no. 307.

1906: Early German Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1906, no. 23 (as attributed to Durer).

1971: Albrech Dürer 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 296.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 57.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich and Vienna, 1986, no. 48.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 47.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 58.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 19.

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.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 30 b.

2009: Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009.

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.

2019: Albrecht Dürer, Albertina Museum, Vienna, 2019-2020, no. 78.