The Holy Family with Two Angels in a Vaulted Hall

c. 1504

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Albrecht Dürer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 21.5 × 15.3 cm (8 7/16 × 6 in.)
    sheet: 22.3 × 16 cm (8 3/4 × 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3595

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 213

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Waldburg Wolfegg, Wolfegg (Lugt 2542); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; 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: no. 213.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 132.

Inscriptions

in block, lower left, on sheet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: B 100; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: KK 597 / 2/221; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 1[S?]22[Z?] [underlined]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 100 / [inscription in French] / [inscription in French] Waldburg Wolfegg

Watermarks

high crown (Meder 20)

Wikidata ID

Q18339739

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