Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

To magnify click on the image

Animals

THE LARGE HORSE

1505

Monogram and date 1505

Copperplate engraving

166×119 mm

Handbooks:

B. VII, 97; M. 94; С. 42; TIB. X, 097

Impression in the Museum collections

Early 16^th century

Watermark:
a head of a bull with a five-petal flower

Provenance:

State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2126

Comments:

the impression is dated by watermark (M. 94, a)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

1) Inv. Г-5180;

2) Inv. Г-2127;

3) Inv. ГЗ-3160

All the impressions are made on paper without watermarks. Their different quality permits to establish their chronology: Г-2126, Г-5180, Г-2127, ГЗ-3160