The Oriental Family ; The Turkish Family
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
about 1496
Engraving on laid paper
Probably Meder a or b
Plate: 4 7/16 × 3 1/8 in. (11.2 × 8 cm)
Sheet: 4 3/4 × 3 7/16 in. (12 × 8.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.17
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower center: AD [artist's monogram]; Collector's mark, reverse, stamped, in brown ink, center left; Doublette der / Kunsthalle Bremen; Collector's mark, reverse, stamped, in brown ink, lower left: KUNSTHALLE BREMEN [encircled with key in center]; Collector's mark, reverse, stamped, in blue ink, lower center: G. LOGARNO. / M.O [in palette] Watermark, lower left: [crown? with star and crescent moon; not in Meder]
Course History
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
HIST 96, Topics in Medieval History, Walter Simons, Winter 2013
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 28.01, The Global Renaissance, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2021
Art History 20.04, Faith and Empire, Beth Mattison, Spring 2023
Exhibition History
Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Selections from the Permanent Collection: An Introduction to the History of Art From the Year 1500 to the Present, Art 2, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 11-March 7, 1993.
Provenance
Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection, to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 97.85; Meder (1932) 80; Strauss (1973): 14
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