Adam and Eve

1504

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Albrecht Dürer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.9 x 19.3 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.1.18

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 1, state i/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

August Sträter [1810-1897], Aix-la-Chapelle (Lugt 787); Paul Davidsohn [1839 - 1924?], London, Vienna, and Berlin (Lugt 654); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1922 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA (Lugt 1932d, with Gallatin initials), 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 93, repro.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 63, repro.

1991

  • Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992, no. 195, repro.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.63.

1991

  • Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992: no. 195.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 39.

Inscriptions

in plate, upper left, on hanging tablet: ALBERT [9 shaped form] / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD [artist's monogram] 1504; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: C.6180 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: K 2581 [underlined] / C 3087; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-15, 224 [upside down]

Markings

R.H.G. NGA stamp

Watermarks

bull's head (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q65067101

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