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The Fall of Man (Adam and Eve)
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1504
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 25.3 × 19.5 cm (9 15/16 × 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury
Accession Number30.1042
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 001; Meder 1 (IIb); Hollstein (German, vol. VII) 1
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, on tablet, upper left: ALBERT/DVRER/NORICVS/FACIEBAT/[Dürer's monogram] 1504
Marks
Watermark?: impression is glued to a backing sheet; verso, collector's stamp in blue ink: BK [Bernhard Keller; Lugt 384]; in graphite: 991; MFA stamp (Lugt 282) with old accession number in graphite: 31963
ProvenanceBernhard Keller (b. 1789 - d. 1870; Lugt 384), Schaffhausen; May 22-31, 1871, posthumous Keller sale, Gutekunst, Stuttgart, lot 1120. Probably by about 1919, George Robert White (b. 1847 - d. 1922), Boston [see note 1]; probably by inheritance from White to his sister, Harriet J. White (Mrs. Frederick T.) Bradbury (b. 1851 - d. 1930), Boston; 1930, bequest of Mrs. Harriet J. Bradbury to the MFA. (Accession Date: July 3, 1930)
NOTES:
[1] In 1922, George R. White bequeathed to his sister, Harriet J. Bradbury, his collection of pictures and other works of art. No itemized list of these works of art is known, but the collection was almost certainly formed by 1919, the date of his original will. When Mrs. Bradbury died in 1930 she left her art collection, including those items inherited from her brother, to the MFA.
NOTES:
[1] In 1922, George R. White bequeathed to his sister, Harriet J. Bradbury, his collection of pictures and other works of art. No itemized list of these works of art is known, but the collection was almost certainly formed by 1919, the date of his original will. When Mrs. Bradbury died in 1930 she left her art collection, including those items inherited from her brother, to the MFA.