The Virgin and Child with the Monkey, c. 1498

Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.13565; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: writing [possibly initials, faint/erased?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 31001; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.42

Marks and Labels

National Gallery (not Rosenwald)

Provenance

R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1971

Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 14, repro.

1973

Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 307.

1979

Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 20.

1990

Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 50, repro.

1995

Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

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.

1990

Russell 1990, cat.no.50.

2001

Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 24.

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