The Holy Family with Three Hares

Prints and Drawings

c. 1496

Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471-1528

Albrecht Dürer used his early large-scale woodcuts to show the unprecedented delicacy of line that he could coax from a solid wooden block. This charming outdoor scene of the Virgin, Joseph, and the Christ Child is brimming with symbolism—from the Virgin’s miraculous fertility, as implied by the three playful hares in the lower margin, to the coral necklace around Christ’s neck, which, in its bloodlike beads, both protected him from the plague and presaged his death on the cross.

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Title: The Holy Family with Three Hares
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1496
Medium: Woodcut in black on off-white laid paper
Dimensions: 39 × 28.2 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment and Robert Waller Fund
Reference Number: 1964.87
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Bartsch 102

Meder 212 a/i

Strauss 36

Schoch, Mende, & Scherbaum 108

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