The Last Supper
1510
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
image/block: 39.7 × 28.6 cm (15 5/8 × 11 1/4 in.)
sheet: 42.3 × 29.5 cm (16 5/8 × 11 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.3615
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 114
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1957
The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.
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. 114.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 155.
Inscriptions
in block, lower center, on table leg: 1510; in block, bottom center, on ground: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper left corner, in red pencil by a later hand: 160; verso, upper left corner, in graphite by a later hand: 5; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B5; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 5
Markings
NGA (not Rosenwald)
Watermarks
Name of Mary (Meder 316) [?]
Wikidata ID
Q18338549