The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Female Nude Seen from Behind

David Roentgen: Long-Case Clock

Abraham and David Roentgen were renowned German cabinetmakers whose workshop was famed throughout Europe for its exquisite marquetry work and complex mechanical devices. Exquisitely constructed, the case of this clock boasts finely detailed marquetry designs and a multitude of functions, including dials that indicate the time in ten of the most important cities in the world.

This clock is featured in the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens (on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013). See Collections to learn more about this clock.

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Female Nude Seen from Behind

After a composition by Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date:: early 17th century
Culture:: Southern German
Medium:: Honestone
Dimensions:: H. 6 x W. 2-5/8 in. (15.2 x 6.7 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number:: 17.190.467

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 520

Description

The relief of a female nude seen from behind follows a composition by the great painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528). His style was revived in South Germany in the decades around 1600. Although it is dated "1507" and inscribed with the famous Dürer monogram "AD," the proto-Baroque softness of the nude's body indicates that it was carved during this so-called Dürer Renaissance. The object may be identical with a "female nude cut in stone by AD" in the 1607–11 inventory of the collection of Emperor Rudolf II.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: See inscription

Inscription: 1509/ AD [monogram] (On pedestal)
Provenance

Birkenstock ; Brentano ; Eugen Felix (until 1886; Felix sale, Casino, Cologne, October 25, 1886, no. 884); Charles Stein ; Thomas Gibson Carmichael (until 1902; Carmichael sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London , May 1902, no. 19); J. Pierpont Morgan (until 1917; to MMA)
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Who
Albrecht Dürer (955)
What
Sculpture (24,350)

Reliefs (3,153)

Miniature (768)
Where
Europe (148,586)

Germany (15,865)

Saxony (4,043)

Meissen (3,862)
When
A.D. 1600-1800 (66,179)
In the Museum
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts (43,257)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Collecting for the Kunstkammer

Prague during the Rule of Rudolph II (1583–1612)

Central Europe (including Germany), 1600–1800 A.D.

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