About the Artwork
Holy Family with the Butterfly
ca. 1495
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 9 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (23.8 × 18.7 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S390
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Watermark, upper center, outline in pencil: [bear] (Meder 93?) Stamp, in black, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606) Stamp, brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 2922)
Provenance
October 18, 1881, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany)
November 1883, (F. Keppel & Co., 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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Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 4.
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Albrecht Dürer, Holy Family with the Butterfly, ca. 1495, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S390.
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