Portrait of an Unknown Man, probably 1510

Inscription

upper left in silverpoint, partly illegible: Also pin ich geschtalt ich ... etlich .a. / hanns Durer; falsely signed & dated, upper left: 1503 / AD (in monogram)

Provenance

P.J. Mariette [1694-1774] (Lugt 2097), Paris; Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy [1764-1829] (Lugt 1710), Aix-en-Provence; (Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Vienna, by 1927); Henry Danby Seymour [1820-1877] (Lugt 176), London; purchased 1929 by Lessing J. Rosenwald (Lugt 1932d), Alverthorpe, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Exhibition History

1929

Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 66.

1935

Master Drawings: selected from the museums and private collections of America, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Gallery, NY, 1935, no. 21, repro.

1940

Master Drawings: An Exhibition of Drawings from American Museums and Private Collections, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, CA, 1940, no. 27, repro.

1950

Masterpieces of Drawing: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1950-1951, no. 27, repro.

1953

Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no cat.

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, no cat.

1954

Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.

1955

Drawings and Prints by Albrecht Dürer, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1955.

1961

Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 60, repro.

1962

Drawings from the National Gallery of Art Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, no cat., only on view for part of exhibition.

1966

Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966, no cat.

1966

The Inner Circle, Milwaukee Art Center, 1966, no. 31, repro.

1967

Le Cabinet d'un Grand Amateur P.-J. Mariette: 1694-1774; Dessins du XVe siècle au XVIIIe siècle, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1967, no. 162, repro.

1971

Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971, no. X, repro.

1996

Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, Mexico, 1996-1997, pp. 110-111, repro.

Bibliography

1927

Kunsthandlung Gustav Nebehay, Die Zeichnung, Heft II, Deutsche Handzeichnungen des XV.-XVIII. Jahrhunderts, Vienna, 1927, no. 8.

1927

Lippmann, Friedrich and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. 7 volumes. Berlin, 1927: VI, 711.

1928

Beenken, H. "Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen." Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft, Leipzig (1928): 116, no. 711.

1931

Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben und seine künstlerische Entwickelung. 2 volumes. Berlin, 1931: II, 437, no. 711.

1937

Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürer. 4 volumes. Berlin, 197: 2: no. 280.

1945

Panofsky, Erwin, Albrecht Dürer. 2nd revised ed. 2 vols. London, 1945, 1019.

1952

Musper, H. TH. Albrecht Dürer: Der Gegenwärtige Stand, Der Forschung. Stuttgart, 1952: 257, 333.

1963

Panofsky, Erwin. "An Unpublished Portrait Drawing by Albrecht Dürer." Master Drawings 1 (1963): 35-41, fig. 1.

1974

Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 volumes. New York, 1974: II, no. 1503/38.

1990

Hutchison, Jane Campbell. Albrecht Dürer: A Biography. Princeton, 1990: pl. 2.

1996

Obras Maetras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 110-111.

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