The Resurrection

1510

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This is a drawing of a figure standing with a staff. The image shows a central figure emerging from a tomb, with radiant lines emanating from their head. Surrounding the central figure are guards in distress or unconscious, and there are clouds and celestial figures in the background. The drawing is detailed with fine lines, typical of woodcut techniques.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 39.3 × 27.8 cm (15 1/2 × 10 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 39.4 × 27.9 cm (15 1/2 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3569

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 124

  • Series Title

    The Large Passion

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Franz Jozef von Enzenberg [1802-1879], Innsbruck (Lugt 845). Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), purchased 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Prints by Albrecht Durer, Birmingham Museum of Art, 1971.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 27, repro.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 6.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 13.

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. 165.

Inscriptions

vero, upper right, in brown ink by a later hand: 6 M; lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.15; lower right, in graphite by a later hand: Le resurrection [?] No. 15 / [?]

Watermarks

name of Mary (Meder 316)

Wikidata ID

Q18338559

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