The Virgin with the Swaddled Child

1520

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/plate: 14 × 9.5 cm (5 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 18 × 13.2 cm (7 1/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3545

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 40

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 59); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 25A.

1971

  • Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 72, repro.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 81.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 51, repro.

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.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.51.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 91.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom left, on tablet: 1520 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 38

Watermarks

small jug (Meder 159 or 158)

Wikidata ID

Q18338481

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