Title-Border with Putti Holding the Pirckheimer Arms

probably 1513

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Albrecht Dürer

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    block: 19.7 × 12.6 cm (7 3/4 × 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.2 × 15.3 cm (7 15/16 × 6 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1984.20.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 281, State a


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galanti, Paris, before 1938); (Lucien Goldschmidt, Inc., New York); purchased by NGA, 1984.

Associated Names

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. 281, State a.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 3: no. 270.1

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower right verso in graphite: M 281 without text a / Watermark 179

Watermarks

small crest of Augsburg (Meder 179)

Wikidata ID

Q74046067


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