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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2024.166
People
Circle of Albrecht Altdorfer, German (Regensburg c. 1480 - 1538 Regensburg)
Title
A Woman on Horseback Entering a City Gate
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370998

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and white opaque watercolor on olive-brown prepared paper
Dimensions
19.5 × 14.4 cm (7 11/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
frame: 39.4 × 31.8 × 1.9 cm (15 1/2 × 12 1/2 × 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna. Walter Hugelshofer, Vienna, sold; to John B. Davidson, gift; to Harvard Art Museums, 2024

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of John B. Davidson
Accession Year
2024
Object Number
2024.166
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Josef Schönbrunner and Joseph Meder, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, Gerlach & Schenk (Vienna, 1896-1908), VII, no. 721
  • Max J. Friedlander and Elfried Bock, Die deutschen Meister: beschreibendes Verzeichnis sämtlicher Zeichnungen, Julius Bard (Berlin, 1921), I, p. 5, under no. 82
  • Max J. Friedlander, Albrecht Altdorfer, Cassirer (Berlin, 1923), p. 37
  • Hans Tietze, Albrecht Altdorfer, Insel Verlag (Leipzig, 1923), p. 48
  • Hanna Becker, Die Handzeichnungen Albrecht Altdorfers, Neuer Filser-Verlag (Munich, 1938), no. 182, p. 158
  • Franz Winzinger, Albrecht Altdorfer: Zeichnungen, Gesamtausgabe, R. Piper & Co Verlag (Munich, 1952), under no. 135
  • Alan Shestack and Charles Talbot, Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 1969), no. 74, pl. 18 (as Follower of the Master of the Historia [Nikolaus Kirberger?])
  • Hans Mielke, Albrecht Altdorfer: Zeichnungen, Deckfarbenmalerei, Druckgraphik, exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Museen der Stadt Regensburg (Berlin, 1988), under no. 26 (as copy after Altdorfer)
  • Norbert Michels, Guido Messling, and Georg Josef Dietz, Handzeichnungen : die deutschen und schweizerischen Meister der Spätgotik und der Renaissance, Michael Imhof Verlag (Petersberg, 2011), under no. 1, p. 26
  • Hélène Grollemund, Séverine Lepape, and Olivia Savatier Sjöholm, ed., Albrecht Altdorfer: maître de la Renaissance allemande, exh. cat., Lienart éditions and Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2020), no. 21d, repr. (as Workshop of Altdorfer)

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/09/1969 - 11/16/1969; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 12/11/1969 - 01/25/1970; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 02/10/1970 - 03/24/1970
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/2022 - 07/25/2022
  • Albrecht Altdorfer: maître de la Renaissance allemande, Musée du Louvre, 10/01/2020 - 01/04/2021

Verification Level

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