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The Meeting of Saints Anne and Joachim at the Golden Gate

Maker

(artist)
1471-1528

(draughtsman)
born ca. 1470/1482, died 1527/1534 (Life dates)

(engraver)
born ca. 1470/1482, died 1527/1534 (Life dates)

Title

Date of Production

1506 - 1508

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper
laid

Dimensions

Height: 30 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3012

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

The mother of the Virgin Mary, St Anne, embraces her husband Joachim after discovering that she is pregnant, despite her age. The couple stands below the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, which in Dürer’s original woodcut in his Life of the Virgin series is elaborated with an ornate organic filigree design and statuettes, but which Raimondi has chosen to simplify. He uses short parallel marks not only to describe the gate as stone but the image itself as a woodcut, replicating the medium of the original model but using the technique of engraving. The central image has been carefully copied, down to the character of the individual marks that emulate Dürer’s own hand. The '3' in the lower centre marks this print as the third in the series.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/06/2023-08/10/2023

Print Room Display - Durer Prints, The Courtauld Gallery (Prints and Drawings Study Room), 29/10/2013-23/06/2014

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : within image & lower right : : AD [monogram] / 3 //

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