Original woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper.
Image size: 11 3/4 x 8 5/16
Sheet size: 12 7/16 x 8 9/16 inches
c.1502
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Signed in the black with the artist's monogram lower center.
From the edition of 1511, with Latin letterpress text in the margin below the image 'Impressum Nurnberge per Albertum Durer pictorem. Anno Christiano Millesi / mo quigentesimo vndecimo.' The twentieth and final woodcut issued in the album The Life of the Virgin. With 1/16 to 1/8 inch margins outside the borderline on the top and sides, a 9/16 in ch lower margin, an expertly repaired tear (virtually invisible) lower right, otherwise in excellent condition.
A fine 16th century / lifetime impression
Provenance: ex-collection Karl Friedrich von Nagler (German, 1770-1846), German diplomat and Postal Director in Bavaria and Berlin noted for his broad collection of prints, paintings, Egyptian antiquities, object of art and ethnpgraphy, with his collection stamp [Lugt 2529] in blue ink verso;. ex-collection Peter Gallatly (British, 1831-1912), noted for his extensive collection of Old Master prints, with his collection stamp [Lugt 1185] in violet ink verso; ex-collection George Biorklund (swedish, born 1887), author in collaboration with Osbert H. Barnard of the critical study Rembrandt's Etchings: True and False (Stockholm, 1955), with his collection stamp [Lugt 1138c] in grey ink on the verso; also bearing a collection stamp [Lugt 1372a], not specifically identified by Lugt occasionally found on Durer engravings and woodcuts, thought to be that of an amateur german print collector from Hamburg or Heidelberg; bearing the collection stamp of the Kupferstichkabinet de Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Print Collection of the National Museum, Berlin) [Lugt 1606] along with its duplicate stamp [Lugt 2398], both in black ink verso; also bearing an unidentified collection stamp in blue ink verso [not in Lugt]
Bartsch 95; Kurth 191; Meder 207 (1511); strauss 70
