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Albrecht Dürer

The Madonna on the Crescent, Frontispiece to "The Life of the Virgin"

ca. 1511
Woodcut
19.9 × 19.1 cm (7.8 × 7.5 in)

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

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