The Dream of the Doctor (Temptation of the Idler), 1498/1499

Not on View

Medium

engraving (counterproof) on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 18.5 x 11.8 cm (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 70

Accession Number

1947.7.41

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artists monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 61 [?] [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [inscription in French]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [inscription in French]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: allal [underlined]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B.76

Provenance

Oskar Stössel [1879-1964], New York; purchased from Stössel by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1947; gift to NGA, 1947.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Stössel, Oskar

Exhibition History

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 7C.

1971: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 18, repro.

1982: Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 81, 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.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 18.