Draftsman and the Lute, after 1525

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Pen and brown ink on discolored laid paper

  • Sheet: 5 7/8 × 7 1/2 inches (14.9 × 19.1 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund

28.41

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed, in ink, lower center: [artist's monogram]

Stamp, in red, on verso, lower center: W.K. & Co.

Inscribed, upper left corner: 82 Inscribed, on support, bottom edge: W.O.Ko. Inscribed, in ink, on support on right: 1261

John P. Heseltineine [black collector's mark [L. 1507] on verso at lower left] (London, England)

A.S. Drey (New York, New York, USA). 1928-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, pp. 20-21, no. 3 (ill.). Dunbar, Burton, L., Robert Munman, and Edward Olszewski, ed. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Northern European Drawings. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2012, pp. 152-153, cat. 92 (ill.).

after Albrecht Dürer, Draftsman and the Lute, after 1525, pen and brown ink on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William C. Yawkey Fund, 28.41.