The Sudarium Held by Two Angels, 1513

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 9.9 × 13.9 cm (3 7/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 26

Accession Number

1943.3.3520

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, bottom center: 1513 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.25; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: Das Schweisstuch [?] von zwei Engeln gehalten

Provenance

Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (two Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 33.

1968: Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

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. 68.