The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Knight on Horseback and Landsknecht

Knight on Horseback and Landsknecht

Date:: 1485–1528
Medium:: Pen and brown ink, touches of brush and brown wash. Fully layed down on paper backing.
Dimensions:: 11 13/16 x 11 in. (30 x 28 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947
Accession Number:: 47.100.1283

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: In pen and brown ink at lower left: EP (mark of E.Pearl [Lugt 892]) Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower left: AD (monogram of Albrecht Durer) and on verso in pencil: AHM: Netherlands before 1550? (hand of A.Hyatt Mayor) and: copy of Dürer's Knight on Horseback + Landesquenet. D6 / repro. Hollstein(?) 265 / 1964 source unknown- Probably Dick Coll. (or 47.100?)

Marking: MMA stamp on verso
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