The Holy Family with the Mayfly
1495/1496
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 23.4 × 18.4 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/4 in.)
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Accession
1941.7.14
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 42
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau [1676-1747] (Lugt 1708b); (sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 388); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 56.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 2C.
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.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 2.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center: Ad [artist's monogram]; recto, bottom center, left of monogram: DV [?] [erased/faded]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 938 [underlined]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 388; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: /20/ [?] 85. [erased/faded]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 85 [upside down]
Markings
recto, lower right, stamped in black ink: [partial, unidentified collector's mark]; verso, bottom left corner, stamped in black ink: [unidentified collector's mark]; verso, center right, stamped in black ink: L.J.R / Duplicate
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q3944475