Recumbent Lion

between 1494 and 1495

Albrecht Dürer German, 1471-1528

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Title Recumbent Lion

Artwork Date between 1494 and 1495

Artist Albrecht Dürer

Life Dates 1471-1528

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. German

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Brush and brown ink over faint black chalk with touches of pink watercolor and blue black pigment on discolored laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 4 7/8 × 7 inches (12.4 × 17.8 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Gift of Abris Silberman

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 34.158

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E. and A. Silberman (New York, New York, USA)

1934-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Anzelewsky, Fedja. Albrect Durer: Das Makerische Werk. Berlin, 1971, p. 122 (ill.).

Koreny, Fritz. Albrect Durer and the Animal and Plant Studies of the Renaissance. New York, 1985, p. 161 (ill.).

Master Drawings of the Italian Renaissance. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, 1960, p. 15, no. 19 (ill.).

Panofsky, Erwin. The Life and Art of Albrect Durer, 4th ed., Princeton, 1955, p. 299 (ill.).

Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrect Durer, Vols. 1-6, New York, 1974, no. 1494/18 (ill.) [as Lion in Repose Facing Left].

Uhr, H. German Drawings and Watercolors, New York, 1987, cat. no. 2, pp. 18-19 (ill.).

Wescher, Paul. "An Unnoticed Durer Drawing in the Detroit Institute of Arts." The Art Quarterly 13, no. 2, (Spring 1950): pp. 156-160,(fig. 1.)

Winkler, Freidrich. Albrect Durer: Leben und Werk. Berlin, 1957, p. 47 (fig. 15).

Winkler, Freidrich. "Verzeichnis der seit 1939 auf gefunden Zeichnungen Durers." In Festschrift Dr. H. C. Eduard TrautscholtT Zum Siebzigsten Geburtstag, Hamburg, 1965, p. 80 (fig. 31).

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. 151-152, cat. 91 (ill.).

Ayooghi, Sarvenaz and Heidrun Lange-Krach. "Impressions from a Journey: Dürer’s Outlook on People, Landscapes and Animals.” In Dürer’s Journeys: Travels of a Renaissance Artist. Exh. cat., National Gallery. London, 2021, p. 197, p. 203, no. 66.

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Albrecht Dürer, Recumbent Lion, between 1494 and 1495, brush and brown ink over faint black chalk with touches of pink watercolor and blue black pigment on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Abris Silberman, 34.158.