Christ on the Mount of Olives

c. 1497/1499

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

  • 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


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