The Sudarium Held by One Angel

1516

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Albrecht Dürer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (iron) on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 18.2 × 13.2 cm (7 3/16 × 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3535

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 27

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. 40.

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. 82.

2019

  • Stoenescu, Livia. The Pictorial Art of El Greco: Transmaterialities, Temporalities, and Media. Amsterdam, 2019: 75-77, color fig. 28.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower right, on scroll: 1516 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: la Face du Jesus Christi [the face of Jesus Christ]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B-6; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: wo [?]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: 65 [?]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18338526

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