Christ on the Mount of Olives, c. 1497/1499

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series Title

The Large Passion

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to block): 39 × 28.2 cm (15 3/8 × 11 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 115

Accession Number

1943.3.3568

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in block, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 140 [underlined]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.16896; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.6.: 213: Reichsapfel

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1955: Art of the Medieval Period, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1955, no catalogue.

1962: Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, 1962, no cat.

1971: Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 29a, repro.

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. 115.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 156.