Masquerade Dance with Torches
c. 1517-1518
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 22.7 x 25 cm (8 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3683
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 250
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Pennsylvania Museum of Art, 1931, no cat.
1943
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 30-31, repro.
1948
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1948, no cat.
1949
Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, Art Gallery of Toronto, 1949, no cat.
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953-1954, no cat.
1954
De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA, and University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, 1954, no cat.
Early German Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1954, no cat.
1955
J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955, no cat.
1969
Festivals and Fairs, Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1969, no cat.
2012
Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 78.
2019
The Last Knight: The Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2019-2020, no. 54.
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.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 3: no. 272.5
Wikidata ID
Q18339710