ID: 700000847 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700000847	Record Type: Movable Work

Five figure studies (The desperate man) (print (visual work); Albrecht Dürer (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528)...; Published: ca. 1515; Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, ...; 882098; accession number: 2010.PR.92*;)

Note: Without monogram; Title from Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy (2002) and Schoch (2001); The print was described by Bartsch as "Cinq études de figures" in Le peintre-graveur (1808), but it has also been referred to as "The Dismayed Husband" (Hüsgen, 1798), "The Bath" (Heller, 1827) and "The Desperate Man" (von Retberg, 1871; Illustrated Bartsch). The print is titled "Der sogenannte Verzweifelnde" in Meder; The print is generally considered to be the earliest of Dürer's six etchings and may have been an experimental plate in which Dürer incorporated various images. The man on the left bears a resemblance to Dürer's portrait sketch of his brother Endres of 1514 (Vienna, Albertina, SD 1514/31). The sleeping woman at right is reminiscent of Dürer's drawing of a reclining woman next to a drinking fountain (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, SD 1514/36); Panofsky interpreted the etching in relation to Melencolia I (1514), proposing to identify the figures as other forms of melancholy, with the central figure signifying choleric melancholy, the sleeping woman phlegmatic melancholy, and the satyr sanguine melancholy; "K:N. 79"--in ink on verso. Publication: [ca. 1515].

Titles:

Five figure studies (The desperate man) (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Cinq études de figures. (C,U,undetermined,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

print (visual work) [300041273] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

etching (print) [300041365]

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, prints (visual works), <prints by process or technique>, <prints by process: transfer method>, intaglio prints)

Classifications:

prints (preferred)

Creation Date: Published: ca. 1515

Creator Display:

Albrecht Dürer (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) [preferred,GRISC]

etcher Dürer, Albrecht (German printmaker and painter, 1471-1528) [500115493]

Locations:

Current: Getty Research Institute, Special Collections (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500353615] Getty Research Institute, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 882098; accession number: 2010.PR.92*

Credit Line: copyright J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research Institute, Special Collections

Address Note: 1200 Getty Center Dr., Suite 1100, Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688

Display Materials: 1 print: etching, b&w

	prints (visual works) [300041273]
	.......(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

	etching (printing process) [300053241]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <printing and printing processes and techniques>, printing processes, intaglio printing processes)

	black-and-white (colors) [300265434]
	.......(Physical Attributes Facet, Color (hierarchy name), colors (hues or tints), neutrals (colors))

Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.6 cm

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

allegory

Specific Subjects:

	melancholy [300055166]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, psychological concepts, emotion, negative emotions) (AAT)

	woman (female human) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	man (male human) [300025928]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	satyr [300379732]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), legendary beings) (AAT)

Provenance: karlf; Purchase (auction).

Inscriptions: Five figure studies (The desperate man)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Five figure studies (The desperate man)	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-) 882098
Cinq études de figures.	........ [GRISC,VP]
	........ GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Subject: ....... [GRISC,VP]

....................... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)

Note:
English	..... [GRISC]
	..... GRI Special Collections databases (1983-)