The Virgin on the Crescent

c. 1498/1499

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1943.3.3474

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 381); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d),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. 11.

1999

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

Inscriptions

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

Watermarks

Bull's head with staff and flower fragment (similar to Meder 63)

Wikidata ID

Q18338510

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