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Currently not on display

Albrecht Dürer

Nürnberg, 1471 - Nürnberg, 1528

The Holy Family with the Grasshopper

Date ca. 1495
Materials and Techniques engraving
Watermarks Gothic P
Size(cm) 24.8 x 18.7
Standard ref. Bartsch 44; Dodgson 4; Winkler, 1928 S. 103; Meder 42; Hollstein 42; TIB 10 (Commentary) 44; Schoch I 2.
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2003-0018

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2003.

Exhibition History

2010
Albrecht Dürer: Religion/Portraits/Nature, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 26 October 2010 - 16 January 2011, cat. no. 125
2011
The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 3 September 2011 - 10 October 2011, cat. no. 52, repr.
2016
Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 9 July 2016 - 19 September 2016, cat. no. 21
2018
[Prints and Drawings Exhibition] Examining Western Prints – Engraving: Intricate Realms Conjured by the Burin, National Museum of Western Art, Prints and Drawings Gallery, Tokyo, 19 June 2018 - 24 September 2018, cat. no. 24
2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_17 | T2_18

Bibliography

1976
Strauss, Walter L., ed. The Intaglio Prints of Albrecht Dürer: Engravings, Etchings & Drypoints. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1976, pp. 28-29, no. 4.
1981
Strieder, Peter. Dürer. Königstein im Taunus, Langewiesche, 1981, 101.
2005
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 38 (Apr. 2003-Mar. 2004), 2005, List of New Acquisitions. p. 46.
2007
Albrecht Dürer: die Druckgraphiken im Städel Museum (exh. cat.). Sonnabend, Martin, ed. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, 26 June - 9 September 2007; Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 27 September 2007 - 6 January 2008. Frankfurt am Main, Städel Museum; Köln, DuMont, 2007, pp. 38-39, no. 4.
2007
Fara, Giovanni Maria. Albrecht Dürer: originali, copie, derivazioni. Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 2007, pp. 88-91, no. 27.
2011
The Locus of Art: Aesthetics of Seiro Mayekawa from Dürer to Tsune Nakamura(exh. cat.). [Nagaoka], Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, 2011, cat. no. 52, repr.
2016
Sacred and Secular: Israhel van Meckenem & Early German Engraving (exh. cat.). Nakada, Asuka; Iizuka, Takashi; Jingaoka, Megumi, eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo; The Western Art Foundation, 2016, pp. 64-66, 277-278, cat. no. 21, col. repr.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 70, 177, cat. no. Y2_17 | T2_18, col. repr.

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