The Ravisher, c. 1495

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.3 × 10.4 cm (4 7/16 × 4 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 76

Accession Number

1943.3.3452

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 86; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.92; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: a69432; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 31638

Provenance

Vincent Mayer [1831-1918], New York (Lugt 2525); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Mayer, Vincent
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. 27.

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 1A.

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 129, repro.

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.

1990: Russell 1990, cat.no.129.

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

2013: Brisman, Shira. "The Image That Wants to Be Read: An Invitation for Interpretation in a Drawing by Albrecht Dürer." Word & Image 29, no. 3 (July/September 2013): 295, 297, nt. 53, 54, fig. 16.