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

Virgin and Child

1516
Oil on spruce panel, 28 x 19 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Dürer's authorship of this small panel is debated. It belongs to a group of paintings, drawings, and prints from the second decade of the sixteenth century, in which Dürer considered the theme of the Virgin and Child.