Adam and Eve by Albrecht Dürer
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Adam and Eve

Albrecht Dürer · 1504

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Pierre Mariette (1634-1716), Paris [his inscription, verso, Lugt 1789]. Sir Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910), London [his stamp, verso, Lugt 1227]. John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York [Lugt 1509]. Sold by Emil Hirsch to the Art Institute, 1944.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Art Institute of Chicago, May 1, 1987–February 9, 1989 (Allerton gallery 209A), no. cat.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, “Altered and Adorned: Using Renaissance Prints in Daily Life,” April 30–July 10, 2011, p. 82, fig. 70 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog (Vienna, 1932), pp. 69-70, no. 1.
  • Walter L. Strauss, The Intaglio Prints of Albrecht Dürer: Engravings, Etchings, and Drypoints (New York, 1976), pp. 128-132, no. 42.
  • Walter L. Strauss (ed.), The Illustrated Bartsch, Vol. 10 Sixteenth Century German Artists: Albrecht Dürer (New York, 1981), pp. 10-11, no. 1.
  • Bruce Thomas Boehrer, Parrot Culture (Philadelphia, 2004), p. 73, fig. 17.

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