Male Nude with a Lion [verso]

c. 1500

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.7 x 14.1 cm (10 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.182.11.b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prince Heinrich Lubomirski, Przeworsk, Poland [1770-1850], by 1823; transferred by his heirs to the Lubomirski Museum in the Ossolinski Library, Lemberg (now Lviv, Ukraine) 1869 (inv. 8296); on 2 January 1940, by decree of the People's Commissars of the Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Ossolinski Library ceased as a separate institution and was combined with other libraries into the L'vov branch of the Library of the Ukranian Academy of Sciences; German troops took L'vov in June 1941, and in July K. Muhlmann, the German special representative for works of art, took the Lubomirski Dürer drawings to Adolf Hitler in Berlin; in the possession of the German military until 1945, mainly at the Reich Chancellery; discovered in a salt mine near Salzburg, Austria, and taken to the Munich Central Collecting Point, April 1945; restituted to Prince Georg Lubomirski, Switzerland, 1950; (Colnaghi's, London, 1954); Dr. and Mrs. Vitale Bloch (sale, London, Sotheby's, 28 June 1962, lot 87); private collection, Nuremberg; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, 14 May 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1928

  • Albrecht Dürer Ausstellung, Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg, 1928, no. 359.

1957

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, P.&D. Colnaghi, London, 1957, no. 27.

1961

  • German Art, 1400-1800 from Collections in Great Britain, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester, 1961, no. 113.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 1971, no. 480.

1986

  • Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Haus der Kunst, Munich only, 1986, no. III.

  • Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 61.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 46.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 57.

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 2.

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 18.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2013

  • Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1997

  • Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 56-57, fig. 16.

2013

  • Robison, Andrew. "The Drawings of Albrecht Dürer." In exh. cat. Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013: 28, repr. p. 31 (color).

Inscriptions

lower left in pen and brown ink: AD

Wikidata ID

Q64534012

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