Object number1941.1.49

Philip Melanchthon

Date1526

Artist Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)

CultureGerman

MediumEngraving on cream laid paper

DimensionsImage: 7 x 5 1/16 in. (17.78 x 12.86 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/16 x 5 3/16 in. (17.94 x 13.18 cm)

Credit LineGift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg and her children

On View

Not on view

Period16th c

Classification(s)

SignedSigned: VIVENTIS.POTVIT.DVRERIVS.ORA.PHILIPPI / MENTEM.NON.POTVIT.PINGERE.DOCTA / MANVS / AD

MarkingsWatermark: small jug (Meder 158)

Catalogue raisonnéBartsch 105; Meder 104; Panofsky 212; Strauss 104 BibliographyLimouze, Dorothy and Susan Kuretsky. The Felix M. Warburg Print Collection: A Legacy of Discernment. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.: The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, 1995. Bartsch 105; Meder 104; Panofsky 212; Strauss 104; Limouze 20ProvenanceCollections: Ferdinand, prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and king of Portugal (1816-85, Lugt 968); Felix M. and Frieda Warburg, New York

Vassar Exhibitions

Albrecht Dürer: Impressions of the Renaissance

Exhibition History"Master Printmakers: Albrecht Dürer and the Renaissance in Germany," Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 21 December 1991 - 15 March 1992.

Poughkeepsie, New York, FLLAC "Albrecht Durer: Impressions of the Renaissance", 14 November 2009- 24 December 2009

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