Sojourn of the Holy Family in Egypt

c. 1504

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This print features various people engaged in activity in front of a stone building on the left with arched windows and a flight of stairs. In the bottom of the print, various people and small cherubs participate in different tasks; some appear to be crafting or working with tools, while a woman near the bottom-right corner sits on a chair near a small cradle. Behind them on the right is an arched gateway leading to a landscape with trees and a distant castle on a hill. Above the scene, a person is depicted riding across the sky with rays of light emanating from them.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 29.5 × 21 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3589

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 202

  • Series Title

    The Life of the Virgin

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 105); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1945

  • Architectural Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1945, no cat.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 23c, repro.

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. 2: no. 180.

Watermarks

scales in a circle (Meder 169)

Wikidata ID

Q18338573

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