The Circumcision

AAT Object Form/FunctionWoodcuts (prints)

Dateca. 1505, 1511 edition

MediumWoodcut

Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Loeb

Dimensions11 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. (29.8 x 20.9 cm)

Object number1983.001.009

Label TextAlbrecht Durer was the greatest and most innovative printmaker of the Renaissance. A native of Nuremberg, Germany, he had established an international reputation by the beginning of the sixteenth century with the publication of three woodcut series, including the Life of the Virgin. In Durer's hands the woodcut came to rival the technique of engraving in its subtle modeling and intricate detail. The narrative sophistication of his prints repaid extended contemplation on the part of the viewer, and his work was avidly collected by connoisseurs and widely copied by contemporary artists.
Exhibition HistoryPrints by Albrecht Durer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, May 1-May 25, 1958
Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer: An Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, April 8 - June 7, 1986
Invention and Revival: Northern European Prints, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 12 - May 15, 2005
Published References"Prints by Durer," Santa Barbara Museum of Art Calendar, May 1958.
"Durer Loan Prints," Santa Barbara News-Pess, May 11, 1958, 10.
John Howett, Woodcuts by Albrecht Durer: An Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship (Atlanta: Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, 1986), 51.

ProvenanceEx coll. Dr. David L. Tannenbaum, Germany and Santa Barbara, California, from before 1939. Thence by descent to Stephen and Elizabeth Loeb, St. Louis, Missouri, 1968.

Catalogue raisonnéMeder 197

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