The Opening of the Fifth and Sixth Seals
c. 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
block: 39.2 x 28.3 cm (15 7/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
sheet: 39.4 x 28.4 cm (15 1/2 x 11 3/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2005.145.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 168
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Series Title
The Apocalypse
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kennedy Galleries, New York); purchased May 1968 by Mrs. Ruth Kainen [1922-2009], Washington, D.C. (Lugt 4740); gift to NGA, 2005.
Associated Names
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. 116.
Inscriptions
lower center in block: AD (in monogram); verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: AR 508; lower center, in graphite by later hand: B 65 M168; bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 226/[?]
Wikidata ID
Q18338537