Christ on the Mount of Olives
1508 and 1580s
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artist, German, 1556 - 1601

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving hand-colored with watercolor and gouache, heightened with gold and silver, on laid paper mounted to a piece of parchment decorated with floral borders
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
printed sheet (trimmed to platemark): 17.5 × 12.8 cm (6 7/8 × 5 1/16 in.)
vellum sheet: 25 × 22.5 cm (9 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.) -
Accession
2013.108.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder 1932, no. 4
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, C. G. Boerner, Leipzig, 14-15 November 1924, no. 232); Private Collection, Germany; (sale, Kunstantiquariat Winterberg, Heidelberg, 14 April 2000, no. 96); Samuel Josefowitz, Pully; (his sale, Christie's New York, 29 January 2013, no. 37); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased by NGA, 2013.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque Hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, 2002-2003, part of no. 46, repro.
2022
The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.
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. 4 (this impression mentioned p. 71)
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1, no. 46.
Inscriptions
lower right of print, in plate: 1508 / AD [artist's monogram]; lower left of print, in gold, by a later hand: GM; on parchment mount, above print, in gold and black ink: Erinnerung des Leidens Christi (Remember the Suffering of Christ); on verso of parchment mount, in gold and black ink: Erinderung der Geburd Christi. / [manuscript text]; on verso of parchment mount, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.4 [erased]; on verso of parchment mount, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 16 [?] [erased]
Markings
none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q77005045