The Man of Sorrows Seated

1515

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 11 × 6.6 cm (4 5/16 × 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3532

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 22, State i/iii


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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. 55.

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. 78.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: 1515; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.9069; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 66; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 11; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: C3598; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.22; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 69 [?] [crossed out]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338524


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