Adam and Eve, 1504

Inscription

in plate, upper left, on hanging tablet: ALBERT [9 shaped form] / DVRER / NORICVS / FACIEBAT / AD [artist's monogram] 1504; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: |42|; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: B.1; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.12023; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: D [illegible]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B1i[superscript]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: a. 26/25 / JL[F?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.5281; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.F.R [collector's mark?]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: K[I?]N: 12.

Provenance

L. L. Stein?; purchased 1937 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Exhibition History

1965

Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 28.

1971

Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 1, repro.

1973

Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 45.

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. 39.

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