Promenade

c. 1497

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.4 × 12.2 cm (7 5/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.1 × 13 cm (7 15/16 × 5 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3458

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 83, state i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d) at the Print Club of Philadelphia, 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. 63.

1962

  • Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 59.

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 8B.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 50.

1973

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 40.

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.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 19

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 90; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 99; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: C 12810; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.94; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.22330

Watermarks

crowned city arms (Meder 46, 47, or 48)

Wikidata ID

Q18338505

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