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The Combat of Virtue and Pleasure in the Presence of Hercules
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1498–99
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.4 × 22.5 cm (12 3/4 × 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP337
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 073; Meder 63 (IIb/III)
Signed
Signed in plate, lower center: [Dürer's monogram]
Marks
Watermark: small jug [Meder 158]; verso, collector's stamp in red ink: H.F.S. [Henry Foster Sewall; Lugt 1309]; immediately next to this stamp the collector's initials appear again, in black ink: HFS; MFA Parker stamp in purple ink (Lugt 1870) with accession number in black ink: P337
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896), New York; 1897, purchased by the MFA through the Harvey D. Parker Fund. (Accession Date: October 21, 1897)