The Man of Sorrows Mocked by a Soldier, probably 1511

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series Title

The Large Passion: Title page

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 40.3 × 30.2 cm (15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 113

Accession Number

1941.1.22

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

recto, top right corner, in graphite by a later hand: 1; in block, upper center: Passio domini nostri Jesu. ex hierony- / mo Paduano. Dominico Mancino. Sedulio. et Bapti- / sta Mantuano. per fratrem Chelidonium colle- / cta. cum figuris Alberti Dureri / Norici Pictoris.; in block, lower center: Has ego crudeles homo pro te perfero plagas / Atque meo morbos sanguine curo tuos. / Vulneribusque meis tua vulnera. morteque mortem / Tollo deus: pro te plasmate factus homo. / Tuque ingrate mihi: pungis mea stigmata culpis / Saepe tuis. noxa vapulo saepe tua. / Sat fuerit. me tanta olim tormenta sub hoste / Iudaeo passum: nunc sit amice quies.; recto, bottom right corner, in ink by a later hand: [illegible/erased] 253.2 [?]; verso, center: [text in Latin]

Provenance

King Ferdinand of Portugal [1816-1885], (Lugt 968); Vincent Mayer [1831-1918], New York (Lugt 2525); Wiliam Goodwin Russell Allen [1882-1955], Boston; gift to NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Allen, W.G. Russell, Mr.
Fernando II, King of Portugal
Mayer, Vincent

Exhibition History

2011: Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese: The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971: no. 113.

1973: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 162-163, fig. 310.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 154.