Standard Bearer, c. 1502/1503

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 92

Accession Number

1943.3.3480

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Camesina, Joseph von
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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.