The Virgin and Child Crowned by Two Angels, 1518

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 14.9 × 10.2 cm (5 7/8 × 4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 38

Accession Number

1943.3.3537

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom right: 1518 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.39.Dodg.87 [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 3 [upside down]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: JFL - [?]; verso, bottom center, in ink by a later hand: 129

Provenance

Carl Julius Kollmann [1820-1875], Dresden (Lugt 1584); (sale, Hollstein and Puppel, Berlin, 6 November 1929, lot 382); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Kollmann, Carl Julius
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 84.