The Holy Family

1512/1513

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.8 × 18.3 cm (8 3/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3517

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 44, state iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Fisher [1809-1890], Hill Top, Midhurst, UK (Lugt 2204); Henry Studdy Theobald [1847-1934], London (Lugt 1375); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1937; gift to NGA, 1943.

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.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 66.

Inscriptions

verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Theo Hrocker [or Strocker?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.14737; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Rogers sale 1855; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.43; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: bf mns [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible ] [erased]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: K 5635 / J 2276 C 6127; verso, lower left, in ink by a later hand: K: N78 [+?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 43

Watermarks

crowned city gate (Meder 47?)

Wikidata ID

Q18338521

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