The Annunciation, probably c. 1509/1510

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series Title

The Small Woodcut Passion

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to block): 12.7 × 9.7 cm (5 × 3 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 128

Accession Number

1943.3.3635

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, top right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: D; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 19; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 17 [upside down]

Provenance

Joseph Daniel Böhm [1794-1865], Vienna (Lugt 271); Robert Scholtz [1834-1912], Budapest (Lugt 2241); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Böhm, Joseph Daniel
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Scholtz, Robert

Exhibition History

1956: The Life of Christ in Prints, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1956-1957, no cat.

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. 2: no. 189.