The Virgin and Child with the Pear

1511

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 16.2 × 11.1 cm (6 3/8 × 4 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.4.3

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

unidentified collector (Lugt 365); William Esdaile [1758-1837], Clapham Common, London (Lugt 2617); Siegfried Barden [1854-1917], Hamburg (Lugt 218); purchased 1929 at Print Club of Philadelphia by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1953.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Mother and Child, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada, 1967, no. 52.

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. 62.

Inscriptions

in plate, top center: 1511; in plate, lower left, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in ink by a later hand: B.1602; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.28550; verso, bottom left, in brown ink by a later hand: 1832 WE Bartsch Vol. 1 P 69 N 41

Markings

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

Watermarks

anchor in circle (close to Meder 171)

Wikidata ID

Q18338452

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