The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Sceptre and a Starry Crown, 1516

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

image/plate: 11.5 × 7.3 cm (4 1/2 × 2 7/8 in.)

sheet: 13.3 × 8.8 cm (5 1/4 × 3 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 37

Accession Number

1943.3.3536

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, upper right: 1516; in plate, bottom right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper center, in graphite by a later hand: 8; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B [?] 32 [faded]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 56; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 44 [upside down]

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 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. 5.

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. 81.