Male Nude with a Lion [verso]
c. 1500
Albrecht Dürer
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 26.7 x 14.1 cm (10 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1991.182.11.b
Associated Artworks
Male Nude Holding a Mirror [recto]
Albrecht Dürer
1500
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Przeworsk, Poland [1770-1850], by 1823; transferred by his heirs to the Lubomirski Museum in the Ossolinski Library, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) 1869 (inv. 8296); on 2 January 1940, by decree of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ossolinski Library ceased as a separate institution and was combined with other libraries into the L'vov branch of the Library of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences; German troops took L'vov in June 1941, and in July K. Muhlmann, the German special representative for works of art, took the Lubomirski Dürer drawings to Adolf Hitler in Berlin; in the possession of the German military until 1945, mainly at the Reich Chancellery; discovered in a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria, and taken to the Munich Central Collecting Point, April 1945; restituted to Prince Georg Lubomirski, Switzerland, 1950; (Colnaghi's, London, 1954); Dr. and Mrs. Vitale Bloch (sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 June 1962, lot 87); private collection, Nuremberg; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
- Kistner, Rolf
- Lubomirski, Georg, Prince
- Lubomirski, Heinrich, Prince
- Ossolinski Library
- Library of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
- Mühlmann, Kajetan
- Hitler, Adolf
- German military
- Munich Central Collecting Point
- P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.
- Bloch, Vitale, Dr.
- Woodner, Ian
- Ms. Dian Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner
Exhibition History
1928
Albrecht Dürer Ausstellung, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg, 1928, no. 359.
1957
Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P.&D. Colnaghi, London, 1957, no. 27.
1961
German Art, 1400-1800 from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1961, no. 113.
1971
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 480.
1986
Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich only, 1986, no. III.
Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 61.
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 46.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 57.
1992
Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 2.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 18.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2013
Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue).
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 56-57, fig. 16.
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: 28, repr. p. 31 (color).
Inscriptions
lower left in pen and brown ink: AD
Wikidata ID
Q64534012