Heinrich Aldegrever

1502–1555/61
Germany

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THE VIRGIN WITH THE CHILD ON THE CRESCENT

1553

Top right: a monogram and a date, AG 1553

Copperplate engraving

115×74 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

No watermark

Provenance:

N. Basnin’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1918;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-36406

Comments:

the impression: a free interpretation of Albrecht Dürer's composition, with a landscape added in the bottom, the posture of the Child and the head angle of the Virgin changed; many small alterations of the original