The Cook and His Wife, c. 1496/1497

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 11 × 7.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 85

Accession Number

1945.5.62

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.84; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 10116b [underlined]

Provenance

Wilhelm August Ackermann [1793-1865], Lubeck and Dresden (Lugt 791); Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein Öls, Silesia (Lugt 2669); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1945.

Associated Names

Ackermann, Wilhelm August
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Wartenburg, Yorck von, Count

Exhibition History

1965: Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 58.

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 4A.

1971: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 8, repro.

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 123, 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.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 13.