id: 141931 accession number: 1965.470 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1965.470 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:55.118000 Arm of Eve, 1507. Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528). Point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 34.4 x 26.7 cm (13 9/16 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Alan Kennedy 1965.470 title: Arm of Eve title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1507 creation date earliest: 1507 creation date latest: 1507 current location: creditline: Gift of Alan Kennedy copyright: --- culture: Germany, Nuremberg, early 16th Century technique: point of brush and gray and black wash, brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 34.4 x 26.7 cm (13 9/16 x 10 1/2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: blue laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, center right, in gray ink: 1507 / [artist monogram: AD]; verso, lower left, in graphite: Nro 24. F 13 z. [bn?] 10zgL. translation: remark: inscription: Watermark: Anchor (similar to Briquet 461) translation: remark: inscription: "franck / 828" in graphite, center verso (Lugt 946) translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions opening date: 1966-09-10T04:00:00 Golden Anniversary of Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10-October 16, 1966). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1967-06-09T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9, 1967-January 1, 1968). title: Drawings opening date: 1968-06-11T04:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968). title: Durer in America: His Graphic Work opening date: 1971-04-24T05:00:00 Durer in America: His Graphic Work. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (organizer) (April 24-July 7, 1971). title: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work opening date: 1971-04-25T05:00:00 Dürer in America: His Graphic Work. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (April 25-June 6, 1971). title: Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism opening date: 1980-02-19T05:00:00 Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 opening date: 1986-04-08T05:00:00 Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (April 8-June 22, 1986); Germanisches Nationalmuseum, 90402 Nürnberg, Germany (July 24-September 28, 1986). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Albrecht Dürer’s Engravings, Etchings… with Eight Original Drawings from the Collections Von Franck. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 1888. --- PROVENANCE Joseph Grünling (1875-1845), Vienna (Lugt 1107). date: ?-1818/23 footnotes: citations: Alfred Ritter von Franck (1808-1884), Vienna/Graz (Lugt 947) date: ?-1888 footnotes: citations: With Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin date: ca. 1884 footnotes: citations: Ferdinand Meder, New York; his sale "with Mr. C. Klackner", New York, 1888 date: ?-1888 footnotes: citations: Edward Habich (1818-1901), Kassel; his sale, Gutekunst-Auction, Stuttgart, 27 April 1899, lot 236; date: ?-1899 footnotes: citations: Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna (property of Archduke Friedrich of Austria) (Lugt 174) date: 1899-1926 footnotes: citations: Eugene Meyer (1875-1959), Washington, DC date: ca. 1926-ca. 1938 footnotes: citations: with Arthur H. Harlow & Co., New York date: 1938 footnotes: citations: with Walter Schatzki, New York; date: 1938 footnotes: citations: Frits Lugt (1884-1970), Paris/The Hague date: 1938-? footnotes: citations: with Richard H. Zinser, New York. date: 1965 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1965- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The blue paper that Dürer used to make this drawing was a specialty of Venetian paper makers in the 16th century, who achieved the color by infusing the paper pulp with dyed fibers. digital description: Arm of Eve is the only surviving preparatory drawing for Dürer’s life-size panels of Adam and Eve in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. It is also one of the few surviving drawings by the artist made on Venetian blue paper, a support he began to use for his chiaroscuro studies while visiting Venice in the winter of 1506–7. With extraordinary economy of means, using only black and gray ink and a limited amount of wash and gouache for shading and heightening, Dürer suggested the grace and balance of the complete human form in this composition of a disembodied arm and hand. Such a study of a hand in ideal proportions cannot help but suggest the hand of the artist, a self-referential nod to his own abilities. wall description: Arm of Eve is the only surviving preparatory drawing for Dürer’s life-size panels of Adam and Eve in the Museo del Prado, Madrid. With extraordinary economy of means, using only black and gray ink and a limited amount of wash and gouache for shading and heightening, Dürer suggested the grace and balance of the complete human form in this composition of a disembodied arm and hand. Such a study of a hand in ideal proportions cannot help but suggest the hand of the artist, a self-referential nod to his own abilities. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Heller, Joseph. Das leben und die werke Albrecht Dürer's. Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1831. page number: Mentioned: p. 125, no. 24 url: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/heller1827bd2_1/0137/image Ephrussi, Charles. Albert Dürer et ses dessins. Paris: A. Quantin, 1882. page number: Mentioned: p. 144 url: https://archive.org/details/albertdreretse00ephruoft/page/144/mode/2up Lippmann, Friedrich, Joseph Meder, Jos Schönbrunner, and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer. Berlin: G. Grote, 1883-1929. page number: Mentioned: pp. 19-20, no. 164 url: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Exhibition of Albert Dürer's Engravings, Etchings, and Dry-Points: And of Most of the Woodcuts Executed from His Designs : November 15, 1888 to January 15, 1889. Boston: Printed for the museum by A. Mudge & Son, 1888. page number: Mentioned: p. 75, no. 278 url: Schönbrunner, Jos, and Joseph Meder. Handzeichnungen alter Meister aus der Albertina und anderen Sammlungen. Wien: Gerlach & Schenk, 1896-1908. page number: Reproduced: vol. 7, no. 793 url: https://archive.org/details/gri_33125010104954/page/n189/ Meder, Joseph. Die Handzeichnung: ihre Technik und Entwicklung. Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll, 1923. page number: Mentioned: p. 154 url: https://archive.org/details/diehandzeichnung00mede/page/154/ Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: sein Leben und seine Künstlerische Entwickelung. Berlin: G. Grote, 1928. page number: Mentioned: p. 570, no. 519 url: https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/flechsig1931bd2/0618/image Pfister, Kurt. Albrecht Dürer: Werk und Gestalt. Zürich: Amalthea-Verlag, 1928. page number: Mentioned: p. 100, no. 135 url: Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. Berlin: Deutscher Verein für kunstwissenschaft, 1936. page number: Mentioned: p. 112-113, no. 434 url: Tietze, Hans, and E. Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1937. page number: Mentioned: pp. 38-39, 190, no. 348 url: Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1945. page number: Mentioned: p. 120, no. 1208 url: Tietze, Hans. Dürer als Zeichner und Aquarellist. Wien: Schroll, 1951. page number: Mentioned: p. 25 url: Winkler, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürer, Leben und Werk. Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1957. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 199, n2 url: Hasselt, Carlos van, "Old Master Drawings in the Lugt Collection," Apollo (Nov. 1964): pp. 417-419. page number: Mentioned: p. 417 url: Cleveland Museum of Art, “Golden Anniversary Acquisition,” 1965, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/cmapr1310 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n130 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 30 url: "La Chronique des Arts," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, No. 1173 (October 1966): pp. 3-ff. page number: Reproduced: p. 7 url: Lee, Sherman E.. Selected Works: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Mentioned: p. 133 url: Young, Mahonri Sharp, "Great Guns at Detroit and Cleveland," Apollo (September 1966): pp. 237-241. page number: Mentioned: pp. 239, 241 url: Burton, Richard, "Fifty years of Cleveland," The Connoisseur vol. 163 no. 656 (Oct. 1966): pp. 128-135. page number: Mentioned: p. 129 url: Yamazawa, Syoichi, "News from Abroad," Mizue: a monthly review of the fine arts, No. 742 (Nov. 1966): pp. 92-98. page number: Mentioned: pp. 92-93 url: Art Quarterly, "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, October-December 1966," The Art Quarterly vol. XXX, no. 1 (1967): pp. 63-90. page number: Mentioned: p. 71 url: Benesch, Otto, and Eva Benesch. Master Drawings in the Albertina: European Drawings from the 15th to the 18th Century. Greenwich, Conn: New York Graphic Society Publishers, 1967. page number: Mentioned: p. 23 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 106 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n130 Fricke, Berthold. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hannover: Knorr & Hirth, 1970. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 42-43 url: Talbot, Charles W. Dürer in America, His Graphic Work. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1971. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. vii, p. 17-18, pp. 58-59, cat. no. xv url: Young, Mahonri Sharp, "The Loving Eye, the Cunning Hand," Apollo (July, 1971): pp. 40-45. page number: Mentioned: pp. 42-43 url: Werner, Alfred, "Albrecht Dürer, Master Draftsman," American Artist vol. 35 no. 350 (September 1971): pp. 24- page number: pp. 24-29, 61-63 url: Strauss, Walter L.. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. New York: Abaris Books, 1974. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 996, no. 1507/1 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 124 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n144 Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned: p. 35-36; reproduced: p. 36, fig. 32 url: Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1986. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 296, no. 122 url: Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1986. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: p. 296, no. 122 url: Dunbar, Burton L., and Edward J. Olszewski. Drawings in Midwestern Collections: A Corpus. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1996. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 141-142, no. 86, url: DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 8, p. 12, pp.148-49; p.292, cat.no. 59; Reproduced: p. 149 url: Heijbroek, J. F. Frits Lugt, 1884-1970: leven voor de kunst : biografie. Bussum: Thoth, 2010. page number: Mentioned: p. 409 url: Franklin, David, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: Reproduced and mentioned: pp. 160-161 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 156 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.470/1965.470_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.470/1965.470_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1965.470/1965.470_full.tif