Artwork overview
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Medium
etching (iron) on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 19.1 x 13.9 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3531
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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