Saint Jerome by the Pollard Willow, 1512

Not on View

Medium

drypoint on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed slightly within plate mark): 20.7 × 17.8 cm (8 1/8 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 58, state II/III

Accession Number

1943.3.3515

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, top center, in cartouche: 1512; in plate, left side, on rock: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top right, in graphite by a later hand: 31; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: 3; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.59; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.59 D.66; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 394; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 72 [upside down]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 394

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 394); 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

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 43.

1960: Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya: Exhibition of Fine Prints, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, 1960-1961, no. 7.

1960: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 36.

1969: Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 63, repro.

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1970-1971, no. 49C.

1973: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 46, repro.

1995: Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

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. 65.