The Man of Sorrows Mocked by a Soldier
probably 1511
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 40.3 × 30.2 cm (15 7/8 × 11 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1941.1.22
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 113
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
King Ferdinand of Portugal [1816-1885], (Lugt 968); Vincent Mayer [1831-1918], New York (Lugt 2525); Wiliam Goodwin Russell Allen [1882-1955], Boston; gift to NGA, 1941.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2011
Passion in Venice: Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese: The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art, Museum of Biblical Art, New York, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.
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. 113.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 162-163, fig. 310.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 154.
Inscriptions
recto, top right corner, in graphite by a later hand: 1; in block, upper center: Passio domini nostri Jesu. ex hierony- / mo Paduano. Dominico Mancino. Sedulio. et Bapti- / sta Mantuano. per fratrem Chelidonium colle- / cta. cum figuris Alberti Dureri / Norici Pictoris.; in block, lower center: Has ego crudeles homo pro te perfero plagas / Atque meo morbos sanguine curo tuos. / Vulneribusque meis tua vulnera. morteque mortem / Tollo deus: pro te plasmate factus homo. / Tuque ingrate mihi: pungis mea stigmata culpis / Saepe tuis. noxa vapulo saepe tua. / Sat fuerit. me tanta olim tormenta sub hoste / Iudaeo passum: nunc sit amice quies.; recto, bottom right corner, in ink by a later hand: [illegible/erased] 253.2 [?]; verso, center: [text in Latin]
Watermarks
six-petal flower with triangular point (Meder 127)
Wikidata ID
Q18338548