Male Nude with a Lion [verso], c. 1500

Inscription

lower left in pen and brown ink: AD

Provenance

Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Przeworsk, Poland [1770-1850], by 1823; transferred by his heirs to the Lubomirski Museum in the Ossolinski Library, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) 1869 (inv. 8296); on 2 January 1940, by decree of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ossolinski Library ceased as a separate institution and was combined with other libraries into the L'vov branch of the Library of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences; German troops took L'vov in June 1941, and in July K. Muhlmann, the German special representative for works of art, took the Lubomirski Dürer drawings to Adolf Hitler in Berlin; in the possession of the German military until 1945, mainly at the Reich Chancellery; discovered in a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria, and taken to the Munich Central Collecting Point, April 1945; restituted to Prince Georg Lubomirski, Switzerland, 1950; (Colnaghi's, London, 1954); Dr. and Mrs. Vitale Bloch (sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 June 1962, lot 87); private collection, Nuremberg; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Exhibition History

1928

Albrecht Dürer Ausstellung, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg, 1928, no. 359.

1957

Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P.&D. Colnaghi, London, 1957, no. 27.

1961

German Art, 1400-1800 from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1961, no. 113.

1971

Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 480.

1986

Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 61.

1986

Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich only, 1986, no. III.

1987

Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 46.

1990

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 57.

1992

Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 2.

1995

The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 18.

1997

Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2006

Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2013

Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue).

2017

The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1997

Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 56-57, fig. 16.

2013

Robison, Andrew. "The Drawings of Albrecht Dürer." In exh. cat. Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013: 28, repr. p. 31 (color).

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