The Holy Family with the Mayfly
1495/1496
Albrecht Dürer
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 mark): 24 x 18.6 cm (9 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3453
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 42
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1941.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1947
Six Centuries of Prints, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, 1947.
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953.
1955
Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
1956
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1958
Life of Christ, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 1958-1959.
1962
A Selection of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962-1963.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 2B.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
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]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B 44
Watermarks
bull's head (Meder 62)
Wikidata ID
Q3944475