The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals

c. 1497

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    block: 39.2 x 28.3 cm (15 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 39.4 x 28.4 cm (15 1/2 x 11 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.145.12

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 168

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased May, 1968; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

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.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 116.

Inscriptions

lower center in block: AD (in monogram); verso: German text; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: AR 508; by later hand, lower center in graphite: B 65 M168

Wikidata ID

Q18338537

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