The Holy Family with Joachim and Anne under a Tree

1511

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 24 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.)
    block: 23.3 × 15.7 cm (9 3/16 × 6 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3677

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 215

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fuerstlich Waldburg Kupferstichkabinett, Wolfegg and Wurtemberg (Lugt 2542); Marsden Jasael Perry [1850-1935], Providence (Lugt 1880); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, no. 409; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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: no. 215.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 226.

Inscriptions

in block, top left: 1511 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.96; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: D. 119; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 409 [encircled]

Watermarks

bull's head

Wikidata ID

Q18339736

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