- Museum number
- SL,5218.182
- Description
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Study for the figure of Eve, for the engraving 'Adam and Eve' (Dogdson 39); whole-length, nude, standing to front, her head in profile to right, holding fruit in her right hand, the other hand extended. 1507
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1504
- Dimensions
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Height: 277 millimetres
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Width: 171 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing relates to other studies for Dürer's engraving Adam and Eve of 1504 (Hollstein 1). It is particularly close to the 'Study for the figure of Eve' in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in which the proportions of the figure were established. The figure is further completed here, with more work done particularly on the foreshortened arm and on the fall of light and shade. Other preparatory drawings for the figures in the engraving are in the Albertina Vienna, and the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York (Strauss 1504/11-12, 1504/17; see Washington 1971, nos. XI). The date 1507, which is certainly written in Dürer's hand, is a problem. It must have been added at a later stage and may have referred to another drawing on the right of the sheet, which was subsequently cut.
Lit from J.Rowlands 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints andDrawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993, no. 162:: Waagen, Treasures, i, p. 233, no. 182; Ephrussi, p. 144; Thausing, ii, pp. 2f.; Lippmann, part xxiii, pp. 6f., no. 235, repr.; Conway, p. 24, no. 396; Pauli, p. 18, no. 436; BM Guide, 1928, p. 23, no. 221; Flechsig, Dürer, ii, pp. 184f; Winkler, Dürer, ii, p. 58, no. 335, repr.; Tietze, ii, p. 18, no. 257a, repr.; Panofsky, ii, p. 59, no. 463; Rowlands, Dürer, p. 19, no. 102; Strauss, ii, p. 758, no. 1504/16, repr.
Further lit: G.Bartrum 'German Renaissance Prints 1490 - 1550', exh.cat.London, British Museum, 1995, no.23; G.Bartrum, 'Dürer and his Legacy', exh cat. London, British Museum, 2002, no. 90
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1928 BM London, Guide Woodcuts, Drawings of A. Dürer, no. 221
1971 BM, Dürer no. 102
1991 Sep-Nov, Bristol AG, 'Primacy of Drawings', no. 34
1991 Nov-Dec, Stoke on Trent AG, 'Primacy of Drawings', no. 34
1992 Jan-Feb, Graves AG, Sheffield, 'Primacy of Drawings', no. 34
1995 BM, 'German Renaissance Prints', no. 23
2002/3 Dec-Mar, BM, Dürer and his Legacy, no. 90
2011 Feb-May, London, National Gallery, Jan Gossaert's Renaissance
2013-14 Oct-Feb, Frankfurt, Städel, Albrecht Dürer
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5218.182
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: C,07.182
