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The image features a seated woman with long hair, wearing an elaborate dress and a flower and leaf crown. She holds a mirror in her right hand and her left hand rests on her lap. She wears a necklace with a pendant and sits on a creature with a coiled shell and a dragon-like head. The background has a patterned cross-hatching texture.
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The image features a seated woman with long hair, wearing an elaborate dress and a flower and leaf crown. She holds a mirror in her right hand and her left hand rests on her lap. She wears a necklace with a pendant and sits on a creature with a coiled shell and a dragon-like head. The background has a patterned cross-hatching texture.

National Gallery of Art · Print

An Allegory of Pride

Albrecht Altdorfer

Date
1506
Medium
engraving on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet (cut within platemark): 9.9 x 7.5 cm (3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in.)
Classification
Print
Accession number
2007.126.1
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Time span
1501 to 1550
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • Flower
  • Woman
  • engraving
  • Dragon
  • Danube
  • Mirror
  • Costume
Provenance

Stiglmeier Collection, 1856 (Lugt 2315a). Unidentified collector G. P. (Lugt 1189a). probably Dr. Gottfried Eissler (Lugt 805b). Probably E. A. Seasongood. R.H. Zinser, then by inheritance; (N.G. Stogdon, Islip, UK); purchased 2007 by NGA.

Inscription

lower right in image: 1506 / AA [in monogram]

NGA object ID 139092. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.