Christ on the Mount of Olives

1508 and 1580s

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Georg Mack the Elder

Artist, German, 1556 - 1601

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Artwork overview

  • 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

  • Credit Line

    Purchased as an Anonymous Gift

  • 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

  • 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


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