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Albrecht Altdorfer

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1515/1519

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Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9.5 x 4.7 cm (3 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. e. 5, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.393

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Altdorfer (artist) German, 1480 or before - 1538

Image Use

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Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, no. 26); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

Bibliography

1963: Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. e. 5, state only.

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