Christ on the Mount of Olives
c. 1497/1499
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 42.1 × 29.5 cm (16 9/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
image/block: 39.3 × 28.1 cm (15 1/2 × 11 1/16 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.3616
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 115
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 124, repro.
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: no. 115.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 156.
Inscriptions
in block, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top left corner, in graphite by a later hand: 6; verso, top left corner, in red pencil by a later hand: 161; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B6; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 6
Watermarks
Name of Mary (Meder 316) [?]
Wikidata ID
Q18338550