The Virgin and Child on a Crescent with a Diadem

1514

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This print shows a woman holding an infant in her arms. The woman has a gentle expression as she looks down at the child. She is dressed in draped robes and there is a thin circlet around her head. Her light hair is long and curled. The infant in her arms is looking towards us and appears to be holding a small ball. Lines radiate from the two people, creating a halo around the woman's head. She stands on a crescent shape, with its curved edges pointing upwards.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.7 × 7.6 cm (4 5/8 × 3 in.)
    sheet: 16.5 × 12 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3559

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 35

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 42.

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. 72.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom right: 1514 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B 33 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 23; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: UA [?] 222; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: gy [?]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 31637 [crossed out]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 32957

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338472

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