Four Naked Women
1497
Albrecht Dürer
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 19.1 x 13.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 3/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3462
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 69
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Lugt 1606 and Lugt 2398); (sale, Hollstein & Puppel, auction XLII, 1929, no. 392); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1957
Study Exhibition of Renaissance Art, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1964
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 7, repro.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 104, repro.
1999
"Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.
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.
1990
Russell 1990, cat.no.104.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 17.
Inscriptions
in plate, upper center, on hanging ball: 1497 / ·O·G·H·; in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: FB [?] [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.75 I / D.14 [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 82 [upside down]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 392-; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-6492 [upside down]
Markings
none
Watermarks
High Tower (similar to Meder 261 and 263)
Wikidata ID
Q7735048