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Fortuna in a Niche

Albrecht Dürer  (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date:
1498
Culture:
German
Medium:
Pen and greenish brown ink
Dimensions:
12 13/16 x 4 11/16 in. (32.5 x 11.9 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Accession Number:
1975.1.861

This artwork is not on display

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscribed at the bottom in the same ink as the drawing: 1498 / AD (monogram) in pen and brown ink. Verso, inscribed J (?) in graphite (19th century handwriting); at lower left, inscribed G. 342 in graphite (20th century handwriting).

    Marking: Watermark: crown with cross and suspended triangle (similar to the one found in paer used in Nuremberg in 1493 (Piccard-Online,no. 51601).

  • 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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