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Albrecht Dürer: The Rhinoceros

Artist



Alternative names	Albrecht Dürer
Description	German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver. And art theorist
Date of birth/death	21 May 1471	6 April 1528
Location of birth/death	Nuremberg	Nuremberg
Work period	1484 –1528
Work location	Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file	: Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat

artist QS:P170,Q5580

Author



Alternative names	Albrecht Dürer
Description	German painter, printmaker, mathematician, illuminator, copper engraver and art theorist
Date of birth/death	21 May 1471	6 April 1528
Location of birth/death	Nuremberg	Nuremberg
Work period	1484 –1528
Work location	Nuremberg (1484–1490), Basel (1490–1494), Strasbourg (1490–1494), Colmar (1490–1494), Frankfurt (1490–1494), Mainz (1490–1494), Cologne (1490–1494), Nuremberg (21 May 1494–1528), Innsbruck (1494), Venice (1494–1495), 1505–1506), Bologna (1505–1506), Milan (1505–1506), Florence (1505–1506), Rome (1505–1506), Augsburg (1518), Antwerp (1521)
Authority file	: Q5580 VIAF: 54146999 ISNI: 0000000120961368 ULAN: 500115493 LCCN: n79118011 NLA: 35051029 WorldCat

creator QS:P170,Q5580

Title

Latin:

Rhinocerus

The Rhinoceros

title QS:P1476,la:"Rhinocerus

label QS:Lla,"Rhinocerus

label QS:Les,"Rinoceronte"

label QS:Lhu,"Rinocérosz"

label QS:Lru,"Носорог"

label QS:Lde,"Rhinocerus"

label QS:Lfa,"کرگدن دورر"

label QS:Lzh,"丟勒的犀牛"

label QS:Ltr,"Gergedan"

label QS:Lzh-hk,"丟勒的犀牛"

label QS:Lsv,"Noshörning"

label QS:Lhe,"הקרנף של דירר"

label QS:Lzh-hant,"丟勒的犀牛"

label QS:Lhi,"गैंडा"

label QS:Lko,"뒤러의 코뿔소"

label QS:Leo,"Rinocero de Dürer"

label QS:Lta,"டியூரரின் காண்டாமிருகம்"

label QS:Lit,"Rinoceronte di Dürer"

label QS:Lfr,"Rhinocéros"

label QS:Lpt,"Rinoceronte"

label QS:Lvi,"Rhinocerus"

label QS:Lel,"Ρινόκερος"

label QS:Lsr-ec,"Direrov Nosorog"

label QS:Lsr,"Direrov Nosorog"

label QS:Lsl,"Dürerjev nosorog"

label QS:Ltl,"Rhinoceros ni Dürer"

label QS:Lpt-br,"Rinoceronte"

label QS:Lgl,"Rinoceronte de Dürer"

label QS:Lca,"Rinoceront de Dürer"

label QS:Lpl,"Nosorożec Dürera"

label QS:Larz,"لوحة وحيد القرن"

label QS:Lnl,"Rhinocerus"

label QS:Lja,"犀"

label QS:Luk,"Носоріг"

label QS:Lhy,"Ռնգեղջյուր"

label QS:Lwuu,"丢勒个犀牛"

label QS:Len,"The Rhinoceros"

label QS:Lar,"لوحة وحيد القرن"

label QS:Lzh-hans,"丢勒的犀牛"

label QS:Lfi,"Sarvikuono"

Object type

woodcut print

Genre

animal art

Description

first edition woodcut with complete letterpress text above. Sold at auction in 2013 for $866,500.

Date

between 1512 and 1515

date QS:P,+1512-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1512-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1515-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

/ 1515

Medium

woodcut print on laid paper

Dimensions

height: 23.5 cm (9.2 in); width: 29.8 cm (11.7 in)

dimensions QS:P2048,23.5U174728

dimensions QS:P2049,29.8U174728

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art

	Native name	Metropolitan Museum of Art
	Location	Manhattan, New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 46′ 46″ N, 73° 57′ 48″ W
	Established	1870
	Website	www.metmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q160236 VIAF: 126238294 ISNI: 0000000419368761 ULAN: 500125157 LCCN: n79129629 NLA: 36247933 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q160236

Germanisches Nationalmuseum

	Native name	Germanisches Nationalmuseum
	Location	Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
	Coordinates	49° 26′ 54″ N, 11° 04′ 32″ E
	Established	1852
	Website	www.gnm.de
	Authority file	: Q478695 VIAF: 131883509 ISNI: 000000012161603X ULAN: 500303791 LCCN: n81047063 NLA: 36224635 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q478695

British Museum

	Native name	British Museum
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 31′ 10″ N, 0° 07′ 37″ W
	Established	1753
	Website	www.britishmuseum.org
	Authority file	: Q6373 VIAF: 134857252 ISNI: 0000000123428817 ULAN: 500125180 LCCN: n79107735 NLA: 35022119 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q6373

National Gallery of Art

	Native name	National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
	Location	Washington, D.C., United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 29″ N, 77° 01′ 12″ W
	Established	17 March 1941
	Website	www.nga.gov
	Authority file	: Q214867 VIAF: 3064149198328574940008 ISNI: 0000000123753994 ULAN: 500115983 LCCN: n79054426 NAID: 10479068 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q214867

Prints in the National Gallery of Art
Parent institution	National Gallery of Art
Location	National Gallery of Art , United States of America
Website	www.nga.gov/collection/prints.html
Authority file	: Q64946756

Rosenwald Collection
Parent institution	National Gallery of Art
Authority file	: Q62274660

Cleveland Museum of Art

	Native name	Cleveland Museum of Art
	Location	Cleveland, United States of America
	Coordinates	41° 30′ 32″ N, 81° 36′ 42″ W
	Established	1913 (Officially opened in 1916)
	Website	www.clevelandart.org
	Authority file	: Q657415 VIAF: 125472356 ISNI: 0000000419367873 ULAN: 500209693 LCCN: n78087650 NLA: 35029027 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q657415

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

	Native name	Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
	Parent institution	Smithsonian Institution
	Location	New York City, United States of America
	Coordinates	40° 47′ 05″ N, 73° 57′ 29″ W
	Established	1964
	Website	www.cooperhewitt.org
	Authority file	: Q1129820 VIAF: 156924364 ISNI: 0000000406043167 LCCN: n80056822 Open Library: OL545974A SUDOC: 031882668 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q1129820

Städel Museum

	Native name	Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie
	Location	Frankfurt
	Coordinates	50° 06′ 11.52″ N, 8° 40′ 25.32″ E
	Established	1816
	Website	https://www.staedelmuseum.de/
	Authority file	: Q163804 VIAF: 168582448 ISNI: 0000000122045232 ULAN: 500212565 LCCN: n83038441 GND: 5313082-0 WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q163804

Accession number

1950-5-24 (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)
19.73.159 and 60.708.157 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
31588 D (Städel Museum)
H5582 (Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
1993.9 (Cleveland Museum of Art)
1964.8.697 (National Gallery of Art)

Place of creation

Nuremberg

Object history

Sotheby's, London, 15 April 1920, lot 139. With Colnaghi's, London (their stocknumber C. 5548 in pencil verso), purchased at the above sale, sold on 31 March 1955 to Knoedler, New York.

Christie's, New York, 2013

Inscriptions

watermark Anchor in Circle (M. 171)

Notes

"Albrecht Dürer The Rhinoceros (B. 136; M., Holl. 241; S.M.S. 241) woodcut with letterpress text, 1515, watermark Anchor in Circle (M. 171), a very good impression of this rare and important woodcut, first edition (of eight), with the complete letterpress text above, with thread margins. Or trimmed to the borderline at left and right, trimmed just inside the borderline below and to the text above, a small abrasion in the monogram, otherwise in good condition S. 9¼ x 11¾ in. (235 x 298 mm.)"

Christie's Lot Description: compare British Museum image

References

Bartsch's Le Peintre Graveur, 136 (Grav. Bois)
A History of the World in 100 Objects, 75
Albrecht Dürer: Complete woodcuts, 160
Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the British Museum, Vol. 1, C. D. 125
Kurth's Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, 299
http://cvc.instituto-camoes.pt/ciencia/e71.html (Portuguese)
https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/d/durer/2/12/6_1520/06rhino.html (English)
https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.9 (English)
National Gallery of Art artwork ID: 47903
‎GNM ID: H5582
British Museum object ID: P_1895-0122-714

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Source/Photographer

Christie's

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Rhinocerus

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The Rhinoceros

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The Rhinoceros

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