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Madonna and Child with Cradle and a Bagpiper on Horseback
Dürer, Albrecht, born 1471 - died 1528 - Enlarge image
Madonna and Child with Cradle and a Bagpiper on Horseback
- Object:
Drawing
- Place of origin:
Germany (Probably, drawn)
- Date:
ca.1512 (Drawn)
- Artist/Maker:
Dürer, Albrecht, born 1471 - died 1528 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
pen and brown ink on paper
- Credit Line:
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
- Museum number:
DYCE.362
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case DG, shelf 11
Physical description
Man on horseback playing the bagpipes; His horse slowly walking towards the right; also a study of the Virgin suckling the Christ Child on the left in the corner at bottom.
Place of Origin
Germany (Probably, drawn)
Date
ca.1512 (Drawn)
Artist/maker
Dürer, Albrecht, born 1471 - died 1528 (artist)
Materials and Techniques
pen and brown ink on paper
Marks and inscriptions
1512 AD
The Dürer monogram and date are most likely a later addition.
Dimensions
Height: 267 mm, Width: 190 mm
Object history note
Bequeathed by the Rev. Alexander Dyce, 1869.
Provenance: Imhoff, Denon (Lugt 779), Dyce.
Marked with a V&A drystamp
In 1588 this drawing was inventoried as “Ein Sackpfeiffer uf einem Esel” in the collection of Willibald Imhoff (1519-1580) of Nuremberg. Imhoff's drawings by Dürer came directly from the art'st's heirs.
After 1588, the drawing was part of the Imperial collections, until 1805 or 1809 when it appeared in the collection of Baron Vivant Denon. After his death in 1825, the drawing entered the collection of the Rev. Alexander Dyce, by whom it was bequeathed to the Museum in 1869.
Historical context note
A undated hand-written note on the reverse on the paper on which the drawing is mounted reads: ‘Mr M. Peartree says this is absolutely genuine. The drg. is on a thin paper with the Nuremberg watermark + has been mounted on modern paper’.
Sidney Montagu Peartree (b. 1862) was Co-editor with of the Dürer Society volumes.
Descriptive line
Drawing; Madonna and Child with Cradle and a Bagpiper on Horseback; Albrecht Dürer; German School; c.1512.
Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)
DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Winkler, F., Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers, Berlin, 1938, Vol. III 1510-1520, Cat.522
Strauss, W.L., The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer, Vol. III 1510-1519, New York, 1974, p.1310, Cat. 1512/7, illus
Materials
Pen; Brown ink; Paper
Techniques
Drawing
Subjects depicted
Man; Horse; Bagpipes
Categories
Drawings
Production Type
Unique
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
