Printed text for "The Betrothal of Maximilian with Mary of Burgundy"

1515

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within block): 4.6 × 15.8 cm (1 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.696.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 251

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1962; gift to NGA, 1964.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • "The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints", 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: no. 251.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 238.

Inscriptions

in block, center: [inscription in German]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65506579

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