Virgin and Child in a landscape

Maker

(artist)
1471-1528

(printmaker)
1570-1629

Title

Virgin and Child in a landscape

Date of Production

1601

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 34.85 cm
Width: 24.7 cm

Accession Number

G.2006.TH.31.1

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

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Label Text

The diverse plant and animal life surrounding the Madonna and Child encapsulates Dürer’s keen eye for meticulous realism, but with each element of flora and fauna contributing to the narrative of the image, with the leashed fox, for example, symbolic of tamed evil. The Annunciation to the Shepherds can be seen in the background. Engraved by Sadeler in Prague after Dürer’s original drawing (c. 1503) whilst he was working as the court engraver for the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, Sadeler received a licence to publish his prints from the Emperor in 1601. He spent his early career reproducing a number of drawings by Dürer within the Emperor’s collection, possibly indicating that Rudolf intended for Sadeler to engrave all of Dürer’s drawings he owned, but if so this was never completed.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left within image & recto : : Cum privil S.C.Mtis //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre within image & recto : : ALBERTVS DVRER ALMANVS INVENTOR S.C.Mtis SCVLPTOR AEGID. SADELER SCVLPSIT. //

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