The Desperate Man

probably 1514/1515

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 19.1 x 13.9 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3531

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 95

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Fisher [1809-1890], Hill Top, Midhurst, UK (Lugt 2204); (sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, April 1938); (Charles Sessler, Phialdelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1960

  • Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 37.

1971

  • Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 65, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 108, repro.

2001

  • The Unfinished Print, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2001.

2004

  • The Unfinished Print, The Frick Collection, New York, 2004.

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.108.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 79.

2013

  • Parshall, Peter. "Graphic Knowledge: Albrecht Dürer and the Imagination." Art Bulletin 95, no. 3 (September 2013): 400-402, 403, fig. 6.

Inscriptions

verso, center left, in graphite by a later hand: 70; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B32E2-; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 145. [erased]

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18338528

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