About the Artwork
Adam and Eve
1504
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 7/8 × 7 5/8 inches (25.1 × 19.4 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund
F76.14
Public Domain
Markings
Signed in plaque in plate, upper left
Inscribed, dated in plate, in plaque, upper left: ALBERT9 | DVRER | NORICVS | FACIEBAT | [monogram] 1504
Trefoil-like stamp in brown, verso
Provenance
1976-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)For more information on provenance, please visit:
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Meder, Josef. Durer-Katalog. Vienna, 1932, pp. 69-70.
Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. Princeton, 1948, vol. 1, pp. 84-87; vol. 2, no. 108.
Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 39.
Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Illustrated Bartsch, vol. 10. New York, no. 1 (ill.) [formerly vol. 7, part 1].
Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Intaglio Prints of Albrecht Durer. New York, 1976, pp. 128-132 (ill.).
Anderson, Christine and Charles Talbot. From a Mighty Fortress: Prints, Drawings, and Books in the Age of Luther. Detroit, 1983, pp. 254-255, cat. no. 138 (ill.).
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 156-157 (ill.).
Hollstein, F.W.H. German Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam, p. 5, no. 1 (ill.).
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Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve, 1504, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, New Endowment Fund, F76.14.
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