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Albrecht Dürer

The Centaur Family, 1505

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 11 x 7.3 cm (4 5/16 x 2 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

The Armand Hammer Collection

Accession Number

1987.24.2

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in hanging plaque, upper center in pen and brown ink: AD

Provenance

Paris art market before 1927; Tobias Christ, Basel;[1] (his sale, London, Sotheby's, 9 April 1981, lot 5); John R. Gaines, Lexington, Kentucky (his sale, New York, Sotheby's, 17 November 1986, lot 4); purchased by Armand Hammer, Los Angeles; gift to NGA, 1987.

[1] Research shows this drawing in Tobias Christ Collection as of 1927.

Associated Names

Christ, Tobias
Gaines, John R., Mr.
Hammer Foundation, Armand, The

Exhibition History

1928: Albrecht Dürer Ausstellung, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg, 1928, no. 348.

1928: Ausstelling von Kunstwerken des 15 bis 18 Jahrhunderts aus Basler Privatbesitz. Kunstverein, Basel, 1928, no. 10.

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

2013: Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue).

2018: Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.

Bibliography

1927: Ganz, Paul. "A Newly Discovered Drawing by Albrecht Dürer." Old Master Drawings (June 1927): 1-2.

1927: Lippmann, Friedrich and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. 7 volumes. Berlin, 1927: VI, 720.

1928: Beenken, H. "Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen." Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Leipzig (1928): 115.

1931: Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben und seine Künstlerische Entwickelung. 2 vols. Berlin, 1931: II: 439.

1937: Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. 4 vols. Berlin, 1937: II: no. 345

1952: Musper, H. TH. Albrecht Dürer: Der Gegenwärtige Stand, Der Forschung. Stuttgart, 1952: 86, 335.

1955: Panofsky, Erwin. The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer. Princeton, 1955: 87, fig. 122

1970: Hütt, Wolfgang. Albrecht Dürer 1471 bis 1528. Herrsching, 1970: repro. 394.

1971: Talbot, Charles W., ed. Dürer in America: His Graphic Work. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1971: 134, under no.32.

1974: Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 volumes. New York, 1974: II, no. 1505/17.

1981: Rowlands, John. "The Tobias Christ Collection of Old Master Drawings." In Art at Auction: The Year at Sotheby's 1980-81 (1981): 32.

1981: Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch: Sixteenth Century German Artists. New York, 1981: 10: mentioned under B.69 (83).

1982: Eckert, Willehad Paul and Christoph von Imhoff. Willibald Pirckheimer: Dürers Freund. Cologne, 1982: 87, 119, (repro. 122)

2013: Robison, Andrew. "The Drawings of Albrecht Dürer." In exh. cat. Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013: 35-36 (color)