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Albrecht Dürer

Knight, Death and Devil, 1513

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.8 x 10.1 cm (9 3/4 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 74, State a or before

Accession Number

1943.3.3519

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom left, on tablet: S 1513 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: 98; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 98 D. 70; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B . 98; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 410; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 410; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 58 [upside down]

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 410); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 23.

1949: Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.

1956: Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1957: Horse and Rider, Fort Worth Art Center, TX, 1957.

1960: Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya: Exhibition of Fine Prints, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, 1960-1961, no. 8, repro.

1960: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 28.

1968: L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 95, repro.

1969: Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 73, repro.

1971: Prints by Albrecht Durer, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1971.

1974: Europe in Torment: 1450-1550, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1974, no. 44, repro.

1999: Religion and Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context, Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, 1999, no. 63.

2007: Fabulous Journeys and Faraway Places: Travels on Paper, 1450 - 1700, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007

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.

1999: Johnson, Charles. Religion & Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context. Exh. cat. Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, 1999: no. 63; illus., cover (p.1).

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 69.