Judith with the Head of Holofernes

c. 1520/1530

Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

Albrecht Altdorfer

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.4 × 4 cm (2 1/2 × 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.398

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. e. 1, State only


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 24, repro.

Bibliography

1959

  • cat.no.24.

1963

  • Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963, no. 158, a.

1990

  • Russell 1990.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. e. 1, state only.

Wikidata ID

Q64952534

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