Title Nemesis Creator Albrecht D¨¹rer Creator Lifespan 21 May 1471 - 06 April 1528 Creator Nationality German Creator Death Place Nuremberg, Germany Creator Birth Place Nuremberg, Germany Date Created (c. 1501) Physical Dimensions 32.2 x 23.0 cm (Image) Type Prints Rights National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Felton Bequest, 1956, ? National Gallery of Victoria Medium engraving Provenance Collection of William Denholm Kennedy (1813¨C65), London, before 1865; Denholm Kennedy sale Christie's London, 10¨C11 July 1865 possibly no. 89; from where purchased by M. Holloway; collection of Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1797¨C1876) (Lugt 119); collection of Fr¨¦d¨¦ric Engel-Gros (1843¨C1918) (see Lugt Supp. 849a), Chateau Ripaille, Thonon-les-Bains, France, until 1918; Engel-Gros Collection prints sale, H?tel Drouot, 16 December 1921, no. 71; collection of Sir Thomas Barlow (1883¨C1964), Manchester; from whom purchased for the Felton Bequest, 1956. Catalogue raisonn¨¦ Bartsch 77 Biography Albrecht D¨¹rer was one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance, renowned for his exceptional artistic and intellectual abilities, and for his far-reaching influence upon contemporary, and successive, generations of artists. His life spanned late medieval, Renaissance and Reformation times, and the profound intellectual, religious and artistic changes that marked this period were reflected in his art and thinking. D¨¹rer¡¯s traditional medieval training was transformed by first-hand contact with the art of the Italian Renaissance, and he was responsible for introducing into Germany, through his art and theoretical writings, the forms and ideals of the new Italian art. While he was acclaimed as a painter, it was D¨¹rer¡¯s prints that secured his fame, and spread his stylistic, iconographic and technical innovations throughout Europe. Additional information The National Gallery of Victoria has an internationally acclaimed D¨¹rer collection. Numbering some five hundred engravings, woodcuts, books and one drawing, the collection of prints is virtually complete, lacking only three engravings that are known solely in unique impressions. The core of the Gallery¡¯s holdings is the Sir Thomas Barlow collection, acquired through the Felton Bequest in 1956, which is renowned for the outstanding quality of its impressions and for the rarities it contains.
