The Holy Family with the Dragonfly, ca. 1495

Title

The Holy Family with the Dragonfly

Artist

• Albrecht Dürer

Period Produced

• 15th century

Object Type

• art print

Physical Description

Monogrammed copperplate on ribbed laid paper

Material

• handmade paper
• Vergé paper

Technique

• copperplate engraving

Geographic Reference

• German

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Monogrammiert in der Platte unten mittig: Ad

Captions Added Later

Verso bezeichnet (mit der Feder in Braun): [...]; (mit Bleistift): 2 [im Kreis] / 44
Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Ochsenkopf mit Blume und Dreieck

Work Catalogues

• Hollstein German VII.36.42
• TIB 1001.044
• Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 1.29.2
• Meder 1932.86.42
• Bartsch VII.62.44 1a

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• devotional image
• depiction of a saint
• landscape

Main Motif

• depiction of the Virgin
• Mary
• Christ Child
• Joseph of Nazareth
• Holy Family
• family
• God the Father
• Holy Spirit
• woman
• child
• man
• group of people
• animal

Persons Shown

• Mary
• Christ Child
• Joseph of Nazareth
• Holy Family
• God the Father
• Holy Spirit

Primary

• 73B81 Holy Family (alone), 'Trinitas terrestris'
• 11C23 God the Father as bearded old man, usually with crown or tiara or sceptre and/or globe
• 11E1 Holy Ghost represented as a dove (in flames)
• 31AA2352 sitting on an elevation - AA - female human figure
• 25F711(DRAGONFLY) insects (DRAGONFLY)

Secondary

• 41A723 bench
• 25H2 landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)
• 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings