Death and the Lansquenet, 1510

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Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 12.2 × 8.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 3/8 in.)
text block: 1 5/8 × 9 13/16 in. (4.06 × 24.89 cm)
mount: 18.7 × 12 cm (7 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 239

Accession Number

1943.3.3612

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, upper portion: Keyn ding hilfft fur den zeytling Todt / Darumb dienet got frrwe und spot; recto, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.132; recto, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: H.137 1901; verso, top left, in red colored pencil by a later hand: 330; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: 97 a [underlined]; Bartsch 132; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.132 / [D?] 98; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: I; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C. 18623 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 56

Provenance

Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin [1825-1879], Leipzig (Lugt 2612); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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: no. 239.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 149.