The Fight in the Forest
c. 1500/1503
Artist, German, 1473 - 1531

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 21 x 28.6 cm (8 1/4 x 11 1/4 in.)
support: 26.7 x 35.7 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1978.77.1
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1979
Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 6.
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 41, repro. detail, pp.2-3.
Bibliography
1980
Husband, Timothy. The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism. Exh. cat., The Cloisters, New York, 1980: 34.
1994
Bartra, Roger. Wild Men in the Looking Glass: The Mythic Origins of European Otherness. Ann Arbor, 1994: fig. 48.
Inscriptions
in later hand, across bottom on mount: Roland le Furiuex; lower left verso: 326; across bottom verso: Hans Burgmair / Gr. Dessin ... monogramme.; lower right verso: 15 / Urs Graff (crossed out)
Wikidata ID
Q64572923