The Rest on the Flight into Egypt at a Fountain, c. 1512/1515

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 23.3 × 17.8 cm (9 3/16 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Philip Hofer

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. w. 47

Accession Number

1941.3.1

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Altdorfer (artist) German, 1480 or before - 1538

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in block, at lower center: artist's monogram; verso: at upper left, in graphite, in later hand: 122; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: B-4910 B-284 [written upside-down] B59; at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: NOX

Marks and Labels

recto: Falkeisen & Huber (Lugt 1008)

Provenance

(Falkeisen & Huber, Basel, Lugt 1008). Philip Hofer [1898-1984], Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Falkeisen & Huber
Hofer, Philip

Exhibition History

2007: The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

1963: Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. w. 47.