The Meeting of Joachim and Anna

Inscriptions

SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper left, in graphite: 1498 ; upper right, in brown ink: sig. ; lower center, in brown ink: Hans Holbein ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower left, in brown ink: Fagel's colln 1801 P 47[47 crossed out] ; upper left, in red chalk: 32 - ; lower center, in graphite: Wolf Traut d 1520 / Nuremberg / cf Holy c[illegible] at Budapest ; lower right, in graphite: (Popham) [parentheses part of inscription] ; lower left, in graphite: woodburn / (mount) [parentheses part of inscription] ; lower right, in graphite: W. Esdaile coll ; lower right, in graphite: T/2

Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970). Albrecht Dürer and His Influence. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 16-March 10, 1991). The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

Quick Overview

Artist: Wolf Traut (German, c. 1486–1520)
Date: first quarter 1500s
Medium: pen and black ink and brush and gray wash
Dimensions: Sheet: 14.1 x 9.3 cm (5 9/16 x 3 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 26.6 x 21.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawing
Department: Drawings
Credit line: L. E. Holden Fund
Accession no.: 1969.30

Provenance

?-1801: Fagel Woodburn William Esdaile, London with Richard H. Zinser, New York 1969: Purchased by the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.