The Virgin and Child Crowned by One Angel

1520

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/plate: 13.7 × 9.7 cm (5 3/8 × 3 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 14.8 × 10.7 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3546

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 41, state i/ii


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. 12.

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. 92.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom left, on tablet: 1520 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B37; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C158[5?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 25

Watermarks

small jug (Meder 158)

Wikidata ID

Q18338480


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