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Albrecht Dürer

The Birth of the Virgin, from "The Life of the Virgin"

ca. 1503
Woodcut
29.5 × 20.7 cm (11.6 × 8.1 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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