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Melencholia I
Artist
Johan Wierix
(Flemish, 1549 - c. 1618)
After
Albrecht Dürer
(German 1471–1528)
Date1602
MediumEngraving
DimensionsSheet: 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Roger Greenwalt
Object number75.49
ClassificationsWork on Paper
Object NameEngraving
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureWestern European
NationalityFlemish
On View
Not on viewCentury
- Seventeenth
Signedin plate bottom right: Dürer's monogram AD
Inscribedin plate bottom right: 1514
Exhibition HistoryPrintmaking in the Age of Dürer, Palmer Museum of Art, January 18–May 8, 2022; Celebrating Forty Years of Gifts: Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, September 25, 2012 – January 20, 2013; Old Master Prints from the Permanent Collection, Palmer Museum of Art, February 20 – May 20, 2007ProvenanceHerbert E. Feist Gallery, Inc., New York, unknown method and date of acquisition.