A Chained Monkey
Franz Brun
1559/1596
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 7.2 × 6.5 cm (2 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
60665
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Franz Brun’s reversed, excerpted image of the pet monkey from Albrecht Dürer’s Madonna with the Monkey differs from the original in several ways. The monkey is tethered to an abbreviated stump rather than a fence, and he grasps an uprooted flowering plant between his paws. Like the often-mimicked Dürer original, Brun’s copy traveled widely. One impression was even pasted into a late-16th-century Mughal book known as the Jahangir or Berlin Album (now in the Berlin Staatsbibliothek), which is repl...