Christ on the Cross Between the Virgin and Saint John

1493

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper, hand-colored with watercolor and gouache and gold leaf

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 23 × 14.2 cm (9 1/16 × 5 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 29.7 × 18.6 cm (11 11/16 × 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.481

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 179

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

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: no. 179.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 148.

Inscriptions

verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 15641

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18339704

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