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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1.2021.3
People
Circle of Albrecht Altdorfer, German (Regensburg c. 1480 - 1538 Regensburg)
Title
A Woman on Horseback, Accompanied by Foot Soldiers (or Woman with Entourage; or Woman on Horseback Entering a City Gate)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370998

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and white opaque watercolor on olive-brown prepared paper
Dimensions
19.3 × 14.2 cm (7 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Prince of Liechtenstein, Vienna. Private collector, loan; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Anonymous Loan
Object Number
1.2021.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Josef Schönbrunner and Joseph Meder, Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen, Gerlach & Schenk (Vienna, 1896-1908), VII, no. 721
  • Max J. Friedlander and Elfried Bock, Die deutschen Meister: beschreibendes Verzeichnis sämtlicher Zeichnungen, Julius Bard (Berlin, 1921), I, p. 5, under no. 82
  • Hans Tietze, Albrecht Altdorfer, Insel Verlag (Leipzig, 1923), p. 48
  • Max J. Friedlander, Albrecht Altdorfer, Cassirer (Berlin, 1923), p. 37
  • Hanna Becker, Die Handzeichnungen Albrecht Altdorfers, Neuer Filser-Verlag (Munich, 1938), no. 182, p. 158
  • Franz Winzinger, Albrecht Altdorfer: Zeichnungen, Gesamtausgabe, R. Piper & Co Verlag (Munich, 1952), under no. 135
  • Alan Shestack and Charles Talbot, Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560, exh. cat., Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, 1969), no. 74, pl. 18
  • Hans Mielke, Albrecht Altdorfer: Zeichnungen, Deckfarbenmalerei, Druckgraphik, exh. cat., Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Museen der Stadt Regensburg (Berlin, 1988), under no. 26
  • Norbert Michels, Guido Messling, and Georg Josef Dietz, Handzeichnungen : die deutschen und schweizerischen Meister der Spätgotik und der Renaissance, Michael Imhof Verlag (Petersberg, 2011), under no. 1, p. 26
  • Hélène Grollemund, Séverine Lepape, and Olivia Savatier Sjöholm, ed., Albrecht Altdorfer: maître de la Renaissance allemande, exh. cat., Lienart éditions and Musée du Louvre (Paris, 2020), no. 21d, repr.

Exhibition History

  • Prints and Drawings of the Danube School: An Exhibition of South German and Austrian Graphic Art of 1500 to 1560, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 10/09/1969 - 11/16/1969; City Art Museum of St. Louis, St. Louis, 12/11/1969 - 01/25/1970; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 02/10/1970 - 03/24/1970
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/21/2022 - 07/25/2022
  • Albrecht Altdorfer: maître de la Renaissance allemande, Musée du Louvre, 10/01/2020 - 01/04/2021

Verification Level

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