The Holy Family with Five Angels

in or before 1505

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 21.8 × 15 cm (8 9/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3599

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 214

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

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: no. 214.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 138.

Inscriptions

in block, bottom right, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: KK 966 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 99; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Gr. Lgb. [?] 285

Watermarks

high crown [Meder 20?]

Wikidata ID

Q18339735

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