Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Abduction on Horseback

Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528

Abduction on Horseback

1516
9 13/16 x 7 15/16 inches (251 x 201 mm)
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on paper; inscribed with stylus.
I, 257a

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1910.

Notes
A study for Dürer's etching of 1516.
Inscriptions/Markings
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).
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department