The Virgin and Child Seated by a Tree, 1513

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

image/plate: 11.6 × 7.4 cm (4 9/16 × 2 15/16 in.)

sheet: 12.8 × 8.5 cm (5 1/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 34

Accession Number

1943.3.3518

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, top center: 1513 / AD [artist's monogram]; recto, in margin, bottom left: in graphite by a later hand: No 35. P.55.; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: 70

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d) at the Print Club of Philadelphia, June 14, 1929; 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. 1929.

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. 67.