The Holy Family on a Grassy Bench, 1526

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to block): 14.6 × 11.3 cm (5 3/4 × 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 217

Accession Number

1946.11.49

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, lower left, on ground: 1526 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 98; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: G N ut [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 13 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 18 [?]

Provenance

Antoine Vivenel [1799 - 1862], Compiègne and Paris (Lugt 190); Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, [1805 - 1865], Klein-Oels, Silesia (Lugt 2669); (sale, C.G. Boerner, May 2-3, 1932, no. 393); (Richard Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1945; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Vivenel, Antoine
Wartenburg, Yorck von, Count

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971: no. 217.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. A23.