The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

c. 1500

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image depicts two women standing facing each other with their bodies slightly angled toward the center. One woman is wearing a headscarf and the other woman has long hair. They are each holding a child, who is being cared for between them. Above them is an enthroned figure within a radiant cloud with beams extending downward. The background of the image features engraved lines and textures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.7 × 7.2 cm (4 5/8 × 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3479

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 43

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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. 1.

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. 27.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom left: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 55 [sideways]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B29-; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 29 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: (HH1162) [?]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338514

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