The Monstrous Pig of Landser
probably 1496
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 12 × 11.8 cm (4 3/4 × 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3457
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 82, State c
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; 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. 7.
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 7, repro.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 306.
1984
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
1998
A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 67.
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.
1998
Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. A Collector's Cabinet. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 67.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 8.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center left, in graphite by a later hand: B95; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 32 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: S [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: V
Watermarks
high crown (similar to Meder 20)
Wikidata ID
Q1219903