Cain Killing Abel

1511

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11.5 × 8.2 cm (4 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 12.5 × 9.2 cm (4 15/16 × 3 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3671

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 106

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; 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.

1965

  • The Old Testament in Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, IN, 1965.

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. 224.

Inscriptions

in plate, top center: 1511 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper left, in red colored pencil by a later hand: 156; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.1. / CA [?] 114; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.18565; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 44; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 1_-[?] verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: no. 1 in Legno

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18339669

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