The Virgin on the Crescent, c. 1498/1499

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10.8 x 7.7 cm (4 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 29

Accession Number

1943.3.3474

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top right, in graphite by a later hand: 29 [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B30; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 34 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 381

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 7 July 1928, lot 381); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d),1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1999: "Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.

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. 24.