Christ in Limbo
1510
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
image/block: 39.7 × 28.4 cm (15 5/8 × 11 3/16 in.)
sheet: 41.7 × 29.5 cm (16 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.3624
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 121
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Series Title
The Large Passion
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1958
Magnifying the Bible through Art, Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, TN, 1958.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 43A.
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. 164.
Inscriptions
verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: 14; upper left, in red crayon by a later hand: 167; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B 14; bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 12
Watermarks
name of Mary (Meder 316)
Wikidata ID
Q18338558