Detroit Institute of Arts Museum
Source URL: https://www.dia.org/art/collection/object/nativity-43119
Albrecht Dürer
The Nativity, between 1509 and 1511
woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
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Artist Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
Title
  • The Nativity
  • The Small Woodcut Passion (series title)
  • Die kleine Holzschnittpassion (series title)
Date between 1509 and 1511
Medium woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Image: 5 × 3 7/8 inches (12.7 × 9.8 cm)
Sheet: 5 1/4 × 4 1/8 inches (13.3 × 10.5 cm)
Credit Line City of Detroit Purchase
Accession Number 21.122
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed, Marks, Inscriptions
Signed Signed on block, lower right: [monogram, D reversed]
Marks Stamps in brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Lugt 1609 and 2922)
Provenance
1881, Kupferstichkabinett der Staalichen Museen (Berlin, Germany).
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Published References
Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 64.