The Dream of the Doctor (Temptation of the Idler)
1498/1499
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
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Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving (counterproof) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 18.5 x 11.8 cm (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1947.7.41
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 70
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Oskar Stössel [1879-1964], New York; purchased from Stössel by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1947; gift to NGA, 1947.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 7C.
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 18, repro.
1982
Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 81, repro.
1999
"Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.
Bibliography
1932
Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 18.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center: AD [artists monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 61 [?] [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [inscription in French]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [inscription in French]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: allal [underlined]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.76
Watermarks
high crown (Meder 20)
Wikidata ID
Q65067061