Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 35.7 x 26 cm (14 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
sheet: 37 x 27.3 cm (14 9/16 x 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession Number
1949.1.16
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 60
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1929 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 13D.
1979
Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 21.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
1999
Religion and Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context, Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, 1999, no. 22.
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
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.
1999
Johnson, Charles. Religion & Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context. Exh. cat. Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, 1999: no. 22; illus, p.67.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 32.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center, in sheet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 57; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 31509; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B - 15222 [upside down]
Markings
verso, stamp in black ink on bottom left corner: JO [?]; R. Horace Gallatin-National Gallery stamp.
Watermarks
none visible
Wikidata ID
Q3948861