The Virgin and Child on a Grassy Bench

1503

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): 11.6 × 7.2 cm (4 9/16 × 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3487

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 31

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Albertina Collection, Vienna (Lugt 5d); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d and 1760b), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 14A.

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. 36.

Inscriptions

in plate, upper left, on hanging tablet: 1503; in plate, bottom center, on stone: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 34

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338440

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