Little Fortune, c. 1496

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 12.3 × 6.5 cm (4 13/16 × 2 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 71

Accession Number

1943.3.3461

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B78; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 28 [upside down]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: L4 [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: H.831; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: (78) [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 69; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 248

Provenance

Nationalmuseum, Stockholm (Lugt 1934 and Lugt 1982); (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, May 6-8, 1929, no. 248); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Nationalmuseum
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1971: Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 3, repro.

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 138, repro.

1997: Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.

2000: Fortune: "All is But Fortune", The Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 2000, no. 50.

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.138.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 5.