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Artist: Dürer, Albrecht (5)

Period: 15th century (3960)

Type: ink (2963)

Style: German (183)

Keywords
candles (42) | religious art (2606) | studies and drafts (1752) | virgins (9)

A Wise Virgin (recto)

1493

Dürer, Albrecht    more

Pen and brown ink on laid paper

height: 29.1 cm; width: 20.2 cm

Inscription
Inscribed by the artist, pen and dark brown ink, ipper centre, verso, 1493
Inscription, blind stamped, recto, collector's mark of Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445)
Inscription, pen and dark brown ink, upper edge centre, recto, in a later (16th century?) hand:
1508 Ad

Acquisition
Princes Gate; bequest; 1978
D.1978.PG.251

Copyright: © The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London