Samson Fighting with the Lion
c. 1497/1498
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to block): 38 × 27.8 cm (14 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1964.8.1789
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 107
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Langmaak collection, Hamburg (Lugt 2801a); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; gift to NGA, 1964.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya: Exhibition of Fine Prints, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, 1960-1961, no. 15.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 44, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 41.
1988
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 1988.
1995
Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Samson and the Lion.
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. 107.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 127.
Inscriptions
in block, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [reference information in German]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.2; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. V 7 p. 116. no. 2_127 of [?] [illegible]; verso, lower left, in black ink by a later hand: Mo Liphast [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: KK960
Markings
verso, bottom right, in red ink, unidentifed collector's mark in a circle: F_H [?]
Watermarks
large imperial orb (Meder 53)
Wikidata ID
Q18339642