The Turkish Family, c. 1495/1496

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 10.9 × 7.9 cm (4 5/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 80

Accession Number

1953.6.63

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.85; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.2252 [underlined] / 600

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Gabriel Cognacq [1880-1951], Paris (Lugt 538d); (Maurice Rousseau, Paris); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1952; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Cognacq, Gabriel
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, 1965, no. 57.

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.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 12