Small Horse

1505

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This print shows a knight and a horse in an archway. The white horse is in profile, facing the left, with one front leg raised and its lips slightly parted. It has a curly mane and a long tail tied in a knot. Behind the horse is a knight in armor. His back is to us, and he holds a long axe-like weapon. The knight's face is mostly obscured by what appears to be a large helmet shaped like a moth or other bug with large wings. The background includes a stone archway, showing a glimpse of the sky and a wall with a bowl or urn that appears to be emitting smoke. Above the bowl is the date "1505."

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 16.4 x 10.7 cm (6 7/16 x 4 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 17.6 x 12 cm (6 15/16 x 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3558

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 93

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 99); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 42.

2014

  • Bätschmann, Oskar, and Pascal Griener. Hans Holbein. Rev. and expanded second edition. Translated from German by Cecilia Hurley and Pascal Griener. London, 2014: 43, 44, fig. 23.

Inscriptions

in plate, upper center, under arch: 1505; in plate, bottom center, on stone: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B96; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: c [?]

Watermarks

bull's head (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q64952693

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