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Albrecht Dürer

The Nativity, 1504

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 18.6 × 12.1 cm (7 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 2

Accession Number

1943.3.3557

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

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Inscription

in plate, at upper left, on hanging tablet: 1504 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 56 [upside down]; verso, lower center, in graphite, by a later hand: B.2 / D.38; lower right, in graphite, by a later hand:353 [encircled]; bottom left, in graphite, by a later hand: 95

Provenance

Richard von Passavant-Gontard [1852-1923], Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, lot 353); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
von Passavant-Gontard, Richard

Exhibition History

1930: Print Club of Philadelphia, 1930.

1945: Postcard Prints of the National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945, no cat.

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 22.

1949: Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

1952: 100 Masterpieces of the Print, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952.

1960: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 18.

1966: Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 14.

1973: Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 308.

2002: Faith and Humanism: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 2002-2003, no. 18 (p. 110), repro. fig. 3 (p. 10).

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. 2.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 40.

2002: Faith and Humanism: Engravings and Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer. Exh.cat. Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2002-2003, cat.no.18.