The Monstrous Pig of Landser, probably 1496

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed within platemark): 12 × 11.8 cm (4 3/4 × 4 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 82, State c

Accession Number

1943.3.3457

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center left, in graphite by a later hand: B95; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 32 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: S [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: V

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. 7.

1971: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 7, repro.

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 306.

1984: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., February 1984.

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

1998: A Collector's Cabinet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998, no. 67.

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.

1998: Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. A Collector's Cabinet. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998: no. 67.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 8.