Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528 Madonna and Child [obverse], c. 1496/1499 oil on panel overall: 52.4 x 42.2 cm (20 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.) framed: 66.2 x 55.5 x 7.6 cm (26 1/16 x 21 7/8 x 3 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1952.2.16.a On View

From the Tour: German Painting and Sculpture in the Late 1400s and 1500s
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lower left coat-of-arms: (Gules, a chapé emanating from the dexter flank argent, charged with a dexter gyron sable); crest: (out of a wreath of the liveries the torso of an armless Moorish woman proper, habited gules, crined and braided sable, earringed Or, wearing a "flying head band" (fliegende Binde) twisted gules and argent); mantling: (gules, lined argent); lower right coat-of-arms: (rendered heraldically indescribable by later additions)

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