Knight, Death, and the Devil ; The Rider (Der Reuter)
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 15281513
Engraving on laid paper
Probably Meder a or b
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 9/16 in. (25.1 × 19.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.53
Geography/Culture
Europe, Germany
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: S. 1513. / AD [artist's monogram]
Course History
HIST 96.31, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Reconsidered: Art, Artists, and Cultural Change in the ‘Northern Renaissance,’ 1350–1575, Walter Simons, Fall 2019
SART 27, 28, Printmaking I and II, Sarah Amos, Spring 2019
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016
ANTH 7.5, Animals and Humans: A Beastly Experiment in Ethics, Theory & Writing, Laura Ogden, Winter 2015
COLT 49, Beasts on the Page, Paul Carranza, Spring 2014
REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2014
HIST 96, Topics in Medieval History, Walter Simons, Winter 2013
REL 37, Animal Rights in Religion, Catherine Randall, Winter 2013
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, September 11-November 6, 1977; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 2-August 14, 1978, no. 16.
Making Connections at the Hood Museum of Art, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 20-April 14, 2009.
Ivan Allbright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 23-June 22, 1997.
Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16-December 14, 1997.
From Titian to Sargent: Dartmouth Alumni and Friends Collect, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 12-November 1, 1987.
Forms and Messages: Selections from the Hood Museum of Art Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 19-March 10, 2002.
Faith and Humanism: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, September 14-October 20, 2002; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, January 18-March 9, 2003, number 28.
Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, July 1-August 28, 1994, no. 35.
Christ/Antichrist: Religious Imagery in Ernst Fuch's The Victor, Lathrop Gallery Elevator Vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 2011.
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, ill. frontispiece and p.36, listed, p.94, no. 98.
Stacey Sell, Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, p. 44, fig. 49; p. 50, no. 35.
Hilliard T. Goldfarb and Barbara J. MacAdam, From Titian to Sargent: Dartmouth Alumni and Friends Collect, Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, 1987, no. 12, ill.
Diane J. Gingold, Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1977, pp. 40-41, no. 16, ill.
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on June 12, 1970; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch (1803), Vol. VII: 106.98; Meder (1932): 74; Strauss (1973): 71
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