The Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
c. 1496/1497
Albrecht Dürer
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 (trimmed to block): 39.4 × 28.3 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3563
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 218
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
acquired 1815 by Johann Andreas Boerner [1785-1862], Nuremberg (Lugt 269). August Strater [1810-1897], Aix-la-Chapelle (Lugt 787). Gottfried Eissler [1862-1924], Vienna, (Lugt 805b). Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin (duplicate, Lugt 1606 and Lugt 2398); (sale, Parke Bernet, Berlin, 13 April 1938, lot. 56); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 4.
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.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 104.
Wikidata ID
Q18339638