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Albrecht Dürer

Philip Melanchthon, 1526

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 17.5 × 13.1 cm (6 7/8 × 5 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 104

Accession Number

1943.3.3552

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, botom: 1526 / VIVENTIS. POTVIT. DVRERIVS. ORA. PHILIPPI / MENTEM. NON. POTVIT. PINGERE. DOCTA / MANVS / AD [artist's monogram] [Dürer could record the details of Philip's appearance from life, but his artist's hand could not grasp his spirit]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B105; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: A882; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 19 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Melanchthon [?] [erased]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 159; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: EE; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 636; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 8003 [upside down]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 16159

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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. 48.

1953: Renaissance Portraits, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1953, no. 67 on checklist.

1956: Life and Lives in the Renaissance, Norton Gallery and School of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; and Columbia Museum of Art, SC, 1956, no. 34.

1964: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.

1967: Master Prints on Biblical Themes, Sloan Galleries at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1967, no cat.

2000: The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.

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. 101.