The Virgin Annunciate

1495/1499

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Woodner Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.4 x 14.3 cm (6 7/16 x 5 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1993.51.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E. Desperet [1804-1864] (Lugt 721), Paris (sale, Paris, Clément, 7-13 June 1865, lot 215); Charles Paravey; (sale, Paris, Féral, 13 April 1878, lot 110); Baron Etienne Martin de Beurnonville [d. 1881]; (sale, Paris, Clément, 16-19 February 1885, lot 147); Martin Le Roy; Marquet de Vasselot (sale, Paris, Palais Galliera, 7 March 1967, lot 57); private collection, Bavaria; (Rolf Kistner, Nuremberg, Germany, November 1985); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York, November 1985; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York; gift to NGA, 1993.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg, 1971, no. 134.

1987

  • Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 44.

1990

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 54.

1993

  • Nine Old Master Drawings: Recent Gifts from the Woodner Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1993 (checklist only).

1995

  • The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 16.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 136.

2006

  • Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.

2013

  • Albrecht Dürer, Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013 (exhibited hors catalogue).

2017

  • The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.

Bibliography

1909

  • Leprierue, P. et al. Catalogue Raisonné de la Collection Martin Leroy. V, Paris, 1909: 177-78, no. 36.

1927

  • Lippmann, Friedrich and Friedrich Winkler. Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. 7 volumes. Berlin, 1883-1929: VI, no. 617.

1928

  • Beenken, H. "Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen." Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft. (1928): 113.

1931

  • Flechsig, Eduard. Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben und Seine Künstlerische Entwickelung. 2 vols. Berlin, 1931: II, 399, no. 203.

1936

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers, 4 volumes. Berlin, 1936: I, no. 36.

1938

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers, 2 volumes in 3. Basel and Leipzig, 1937: 1:no. 26.

1943

  • Panofsky, Erwin. Albrecht Dürer, 2 volumes. London, 1943: II, no. 708.

1957

  • Winkler, Friedrich. Albrecht Dürer, Leben und Werk. Berlin, 1957: 35.

1969

  • Schadendorf, Wulf. Eine Zeichnung Dürers von 1492/93. Nürnberg, 1969.

1974

  • Strauss, Walter L. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 volumes. New York, 1974: I, no. 1491/7.

1995

  • Jones, Jennifer. "The Woodner Collections at the National Gallery." Drawing 17 (September-October 1995): 49-53.

2010

  • Robison, Andrew. "German Drawings for the National Gallery of Art: The Wolfgang Ratjen Collection." NGA Bulletin, Spring 2010: 2, fig. 1.

2013

  • Robison, Andrew. "The Drawings of Albrecht Dürer." In exh. cat. Albrecht Dürer: Master Drawings, Watercolors, and Prints from the Albertina. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013: 20, repr. p. 19 (color).

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center in gray ink: AD (monogram)

Watermarks

tall crown with Latin cross (similar to Briquet 4890-4902)

Wikidata ID

Q18709800

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