The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.7 × 7.2 cm (4 5/8 × 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 43

Accession Number

1943.3.3479

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom left: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 55 [sideways]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B29-; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 29 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: (HH1162) [?]

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 1.

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.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 27.