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Inscription

in plate, lower right: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: 2 [in square] [crossed out]; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: 4 / 60 [in square]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: (00777) 1000 = [illegible]

Provenance

Jean-François Gigoux [1806-1894], Paris (Lugt 1164); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Exhibition History

1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 53.
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 14, repro.
1953
Masterpieces of Graphic Art, Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1953, no cat.
1954
Early German Prints, Portland Museum of Art, OR, 1954, no cat.
1955
J.B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955, no cat.
1959
Graphic Art of Dürer and Schongauer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1959, no cat.
1960
Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 30.
1962
Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, 1962, no cat.
1964
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1967
When Reason Dreams: A Selection of Prints from Five Centuries Illustrating Artistic Concerns with the Imagination, the Fantastic and the Grotesque, University of South Florida, Tampa; Duke University, Durham, NC; University of Florida, Gainesville; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 2, repro.
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 28, repro.
1971
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp.112-113, repro (entry includes the wrong accession number).
2002
Faith and Humanism: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 2002-2003, no. 29 (p. 112), repro. fig. 5 (p. 15).

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.
1995
Janson, Horst W., and Anthony F. Janson. History of art. 5th ed. New York, 1995: fig. 717.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, Mexico 1996: 112-113.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 71, state ii/ii.
2002
Faith and Humanism: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer. Exh. cat. Montgomery Msueum of Fine Arts; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2002-2003, no. 29.

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