The Crucifixion

1508

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

The image shows a Crucifixion scene with a figure nailed to a cross, surrounded by onlookers. In the background, there is a landscape with a distant city skyline. The artwork features detailed hatching and line work typical of early Renaissance art.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 13.2 × 9.8 cm (5 3/16 × 3 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3496

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 23

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ralf Leopold von Retberg [1812-1885], Munich (Lugt 2822 in blue ink). purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 19.

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. 1: no. 61.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center on tablet: 1508 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B24; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 22 [?] [upside down]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: writing [erased]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: writing [erased]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 105 [underlined]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 18

Markings

unidentified collector's mark in purple ink on bottom right of verso

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338447

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