Satyr Family

1505

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows a nude woman seated on the ground, holding a child who is nursing. She is partially reclined against a tree. A male figure resembling a satyr is standing next to her, playing a musical pipe. The background is a dense forest setting with tall tree trunks and thick foliage. A wooden sign hangs from one of the trees with carved markings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3562

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 65

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Watermarks

possibly bull's head with five-petaled flower (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q18338443

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