Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Dürer)

Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is a tempera and oil painting by Albrecht Dürer.

Originally painted on panel, it was later transferred onto canvas and is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

A preparatory sketch for the work survives in the Albertina in Vienna, possibly dating to 1519 and showing St Anne (modelled on the painter's wife Agnes) painted in grey with highlights on a dark background.

In 1630 Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria acquired it and it was displayed in Schloss Schleißheim until the mid 19th century.

[2] Museum of John Paul II Collection in Warsaw has different version of this painting from 1523, which is also considered as artist's own work.