About the Artwork
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
ca. 1499
Mair von Landshut
active ca. 1485-1520
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 9 3/8 × 6 1/2 inches (23.8 × 16.5 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S723
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left and right of image: [Wenzel von Olmutz's monogram] Signed, lower center of image: .1499. | HILE S ANN SEIN TRIT | .MAIR.
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Stamped, in black, verso: Revd. John Griffith (Lugt 1464) Stamped, verso: Scripps 1886 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]
Provenance
Reverend John Griffith (Oxford, England)
August 1886, (H. Wunderlich, New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Mair von Landshut, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, ca. 1499, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S723.
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