Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 14.9 x 13.7 cm (5 7/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3454
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 77, state i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 6-8, 1929, no. 256); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 28 (as The Offer of Love).
1966
Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 18 (as Offer of Love).
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 49.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 122, repro.
1996
Scenes of Daily Life: Genre Prints from the Housebook Master to Rembrandt van Rijn, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996, as The Ill-Matched Couple.
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.122.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 3
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 39 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 256; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.93
Markings
purple stamp at bottom right of verso, very smudged
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q58758588