Standard Bearer

c. 1502/1503

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows a man standing with a pole and a flag in his right hand. He has curly hair and is wearing an elaborate costume with a cape adorned with feathers. The ground is rocky with grass, and there is water in the background with sailboats and distant landmasses.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 11.6 x 7.1 cm (4 9/16 x 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3480

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 92

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph von Camesina [died 1827], Vienna (Lugt 429), by 1827; (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, auction XLI, May 6, 1929, no. 252); 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. 30.

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

1999

  • "Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.

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. 31.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower left, on tablet on tree stump: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in ink by a later hand: Jos v Camesinay / le 15 Mars 1827; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: FL [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 87; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 27 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 252; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: L52

Watermarks

bull's head with flower (Meder 63)

Wikidata ID

Q18338518

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