The Holy Family with the Mayfly, 1495/1496

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24 x 18.6 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 42

Accession Number

1943.3.3453

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: Ad [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B 44

Provenance

(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1956: Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 2B.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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. 2.