About the Artwork
The Virgin on the Crescent
between 1494 and 1533
Lucas van Leyden
1494-1533
Netherlandish
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 4 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (11.4 × 7.3 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
21.144
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, in plate, lower left of image: L
Inscribed, in plate, lower right of image: 1523 Inscribed, in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Provenance
1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Lucas van Leyden, The Virgin on the Crescent, between 1494 and 1533, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.144.
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