The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso)

Self-portrait, Study of a Hand and a Pillow (recto); Six Studies of Pillows (verso)

Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date:: 1493
Culture:: German
Medium:: Pen and brown ink
Dimensions:: 10 15/16 x 7 15/16 in. (27.8 x 20.2 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:: 1975.1.862

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: On the recto at the center top: the monogram Ad was added by another hand in thicker, more reddish brown ink.

Marking: Inscribed in brown ink on the verso at the center top: 1493; at the lower left, a collector's stamp about 8mm in diameter, in reddish brown: MUZ LUBOM Sorrounding the letters IO (or the number 10?) Watermark: three fleurs-de-lis in a shield, with a crown and flower and a suspended letter t (similar to Piccard XIII (III), no. 1734 [Sitten 1494] or no. 1735 [Siegen 1494]; chain lines 46-47 mm apart.
Provenance

Prince Heinrich (Henryk) Lubomirski (1777-1850), Przeworsk; moved to the "Lubomirski Museum," Ossolinski Nationalinstitut, Lviv, after 1868; confiscated by the German occupation forces on 2 July 1941 and removed to Germany; United States Army, 1945-48; Prince Georg Lubomirski; [Schaeffer Galleries, New York]. Acquired by Robert Lehman in 1952.
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