Recumbent Lion, between 1494 and 1495

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Brush and brown ink over faint black chalk with touches of pink watercolor and blue black pigment on discolored laid paper

  • Sheet: 4 7/8 × 7 inches (12.4 × 17.8 cm)

Gift of Abris Silberman

34.158

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

E. and A. Silberman (New York, New York, USA)

1934-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Albrecht Dürer, Recumbent Lion, between 1494 and 1495, brush and brown ink over faint black chalk with touches of pink watercolor and blue black pigment on discolored laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Abris Silberman, 34.158.