The Elevation of Saint Mary Magdalene

c. 1504/1505

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 21.6 × 14.7 cm (8 1/2 × 5 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3598

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 237


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Junius Spencer Morgan [1867-1932], Princeton and Paris (Lugt 1536); gift to Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Lugt 1943 and Lugt 1808h [duplicate stamp]); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1937; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 57, 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: no. 237.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.57.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 139.

Inscriptions

in block, bottom left, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 19.73.1.44; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: D.I.285.29 / B.VII.141.121; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 121; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 34222; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: J.S.M.

Watermarks

imperial eagle

Wikidata ID

Q18339733


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