Inscription
in plate, lower right: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand:1788 [underlined] / V [?] CM [?]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 74.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: t 210; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NK [?] 36758; verso, lower right corner, in graphite by a later hand: M: 200 Blac[illegible, faded]
Provenance
Arthur Friederich Theodor Bohnenberger [1826-1893], Stuttgart (Lugt 68); (auction sale, Gutekunst and Klipstein, Bern, 6 June 1939, no. 95); purchased 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkinton, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1949
- Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.
- 1953
- Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.
- 1953
- Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, 1953, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., no cat.
- 1954
- Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no cat.
- 1955
- Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no cat.
- 1956
- Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.
- 1958
- The Fantastic, the Occult, and the Bizarre in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958, no cat.
- 1960
- Dürer, Rembrandt, Goya: Exhibition of Fine Prints, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, CA, 1960-1961, no. 9.
- 1970
- Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1970-1971, no. 22A.
- 1971
- Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971, no. 59, repro.
- 1982
- Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982, no. 8, repro.
- 1991
- Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1991-1992, no. 199, repro., as Melancolia I.
- 1997
- Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, no cat.
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.
- 1985
- Snyder, James E. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350-1575. New York, 1985: 316-319, fig. 349.
- 1990
- Chapman, H. Perry. Rembrandt's Self-Portraits: A Study in Seventeenth-Century Identity. Princeton, 1990: x, 27, 31, fig. 28.
- 1991
- Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1991-1992: no. 199.
- 1991
- Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 208, 209, repro.
- 1998
- Mandel, Corinne. "Melancholy." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art, edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 2:584-587.
- 2001
- Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 71, state i/ii.
- 2013
- Parshall, Peter. "Graphic Knowledge: Albrecht Dürer and the Imagination." Art Bulletin 95, no. 3 (September 2013): 393, 404, 405, 406, fig. 9.
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