Satyr Family, 1505

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. 65

Accession Number

1943.3.3562

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, upper right, on hanging tablet: 1505 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper right, in graphite on old hinge: 64

Provenance

David Bernhard Hausmann [1784-1874], Hanover (Lugt 377); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Hausmann, Bernhard David
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 17A.

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 309, repro.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 55.

1985: Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, plate 47, repro.

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.

1993: Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: 135, pl. 98.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 44.