The Man of Sorrows Standing by the Column

1509

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.9 × 7.5 cm (4 11/16 × 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3501

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 3


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection, Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); Arthur Friederich Theodor Bohnenberger [1826-1893], Stuttgart (Lugt 68); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 2.

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. 3.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1, no. 45.

Inscriptions

recto, in plate, at upper left: 1509 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible; sideways]; verso, lower left side, in graphite by a later hand: 1661 [?]; / GHN / a 19392; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 6105; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: vnx [?] / NR [?] 25146; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 21 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B. 3

Markings

none

Watermarks

High Crown [partial] (Meder 20)

Wikidata ID

Q18338449


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