drawing
- Museum number
- 1923,0417.4
- Description
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Presentation in the Temple, one of two roundels forming part of a series of the Life of the Virgin; to left stand the Virgin, Joseph and the High Priest holding the Infant Christ, to right a woman kneels holding a caged dove, with further figures to right and beyond, with an elaborate renaissance portico, in the foreground are two boys, a dog, and a lamb with its feet bound. 1532
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
- Production date
- 1532
- Dimensions
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Height: 272 millimetres
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Width: 272 millimetres (circular)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Related to the more finished version of similar design, BM 1952,0121.85. Two other drawings from the same series are at Weimar and Vienna.
The same marks can be found on another drawing by Vellert (1923,0417.3) and an anonymous drawing (1923,0417.5).
Literature: E. Konowitz, 'Drawings as intermediary stages: some working methods of Dirk Vellert and Albrecht Dürer re-examined', Simiolus (Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art), 20, (1990/1991), pp.144-47, repr. fig.4 (notes that the darker outlines are revisions).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, 'Netherlandish Prints and Drawings'
1977 Oct-Nov, Brussels, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dürer aux Pays-Bas, no.196
1995 June-July, New York, Met Mus of Art, Painted Glass Roundel, no. 75
2010/11 Oct-Jan, New York, Met Mus of Art, Jan Gossaert's Renaissance
2011 Feb-May, London, National Gallery, Jan Gossaert's Renaissance
- Acquisition date
- 1923
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1923,0417.4