The Holy Family with Five Angels
in or before 1505
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to block): 21.8 × 15 cm (8 9/16 × 5 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3599
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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