The Rhinoceros
Artist
Albrecht Dürer
(German, 1471 - 1528)
Date1515
MediumWoodcut
DimensionsImage: 8 1/2 × 11 3/4 inches (21.59 × 29.85 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number32-74/19
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Gallery LabelAlbrecht Dürer, the most famous German artist of all time, worked during the Renaissance period of the early 16th century. He never saw the rhinoceros represented here but relied on a written description and a drawing by another artist. Thus the animal looks more like a knight in armor than the real thing.
With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by May 1932;
Purchased from M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1932.
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