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Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
Abduction on Horseback
1516
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; inscribed with stylus.
9 13/16 x 7 15/16 inches (251 x 201 mm)
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.
I, 257a
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Inscription:
Inscribed at lower left, in pen and brown ink, "lte 50 (?)"; at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "15."; on verso, at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "Albert Dure[r]" (cancelled in brown ink); at right of center, in graphite, "USNN"; at lower left in graphite, "122"; at lower right in graphite, "122"; beneath this in pen and brown ink, "albert Durer [in Roupell's hand?] RPR" (Roupell collector's mark).
Provenance:
R.P. Roupell (Lugt 2234); Baron Adalbert von Lanna, Prague (Lugt 2773); purchased by Colnaghi for J. Pierpont Morgan (no mark; see Lugt 1509).
Notes:
A study for Dürer's etching of 1516.
Associated names:
Roupell, Robert Prioleau, 1798-1886, former owner.
Lanna, Adalbert Franz Josef, Freiherr von, 1836-1909, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
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