The Nativity

1504

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 18.5 × 12.1 cm (7 5/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.1.19

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

unidentified collector (Lugt 365); Sir Peter Lely [1618 - 1680], London (Lugt 2092); The Hon. John Spencer, [1708 - 1746], Althorp (Lugt 1532); by descent through the Spencer family; (Spencer sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 25 June 1919, lot no. 42); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1919 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

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. 2.

2001

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

Inscriptions

in plate, at upper left, on hanging tablet: 1504 / AD [artist's monogram]; recto, at top right, in brown ink, by later hand: Ag. 37.

Markings

verso, lower right, in brown ink, by a later hand: [unidentified collector's mark, Lugt 365, with date 1602)

Watermarks

Bull's head (Meder 62)

Wikidata ID

Q18338442

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