The Virgin and Child Crowned by One Angel
1520
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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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
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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