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Inscription

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

Marks and Labels

purple stamp at bottom right of verso, very smudged

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.

Exhibition History

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

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