Hercules Conquering the Molionide Twins
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
about 1496
Woodcut on laid paper
Meder a
Sheet: 15 7/16 × 11 5/16 in. (39.2 × 28.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Helena Mein Wade in memory of her husband, Alfred Byers Wade
PR.950.21.15
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in block, lower center: AD [in monogram]; inscribed, in block, top center: Ercules; verso: collector's mark of Friedrich Quiring (Lugt Supp. 1041c) Watermark: Large Imperial Orb
Course History
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ARTH 7, Knight, Death, and the Devil, Jane Carroll, Spring 2012
ANTH 12.3, WGST 42.5, The Ethnography of Violence, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
CLST 4, Classical Mythology, Pramit Chaudhuri, Summer 2014
HIST 96.31, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Reconsidered: Art, Artists, and Cultural Change in the ‘Northern Renaissance,’ 1350–1575, Walter Simons, Fall 2019
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 003, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Fall 2020
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Winter 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
GERM 03, Intermediate German, Klaus Mladek and Lisa Oberberger, Spring 2021
Exhibition History
1500, Strauss Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1972.
15th & 16th Century Prints from the Permanent Collection, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 14-December 4, 1977.
Art and/as Violence, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Art History 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 12, 2006-March 11, 2007.
Art I, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 21, 1975-January 11, 1976.
Art I, South Lobby, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November-December 1973.
Constructing Gender: Works from the Hood Museum of Art's Collection, 1500 to the Present, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, ARTH 2, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 28-April 22, 2012.
Durer and Friends, Art 52, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 30, 1979-January 6, 1980.
Durer and Related Works, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 1971.
Late Medieval and Renaissance Prints, Barrows Galleries, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 8-December 15, 1974.
Northern Baroque, Art 46, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March-April 23, 1978.
Old Master Prints from the Dartmouth Collection, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 23-April 10, 1988.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Representing Myth: The Classical Tradition in Western Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-August 17, 1995.
Provenance
Friedrich Quiring (born 1886), Eberswalde (near Berlin); acquired sometime after 1921; Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., New York; sold to Alfred Byers Wade (1874-1949) Collection, to his wife, Helena Mein Wade (1878-1966), New Canaan, Connecticut, 1949; given to present collection, 1950.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 127; Meder 238; Knappe 136
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