The Presentation of Christ in the Temple

c. 1504/1505

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This is a drawing of an indoor scene with a group of figures gathered around a table. The image shows a room with fluted columns topped with Corinthian capitals, a detailed coffered ceiling, and figures dressed in robes. A table covered with a cloth is at the center.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    block: 29.3 × 20.8 cm (11 9/16 × 8 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 29.7 × 21.1 cm (11 11/16 × 8 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3587

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 200

  • Series Title

    The Life of the Virgin

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Arkady Alferoff [1811-1872], Bonn (Lugt 1727). Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 105); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 147, repro.

2014

  • Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 2014-2015.

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.

1991

  • Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 215, repro.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 178.

Watermarks

high crown (Meder 20)

Wikidata ID

Q18338571

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