DÜRER, Albrecht
(b. 1471, Nürnberg, d. 1528, Nürnberg)

The Virgin Mary in Prayer

1518
Oil on lindenwood, 53 x 43 cm
Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Wilhem von Bode acquired the panel in Venice in 1894 in an auction of the Morosini-Gatterburg collection, and then donated it to the Berlin art gallery. The Virgin Mary in Prayer was part of a diptych whose matching pair was probably a representation of an Ecce Homo.