The Betrayal of Christ

1510

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 39.8 × 28.2 cm (15 11/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 41.3 × 29.2 cm (16 1/4 × 11 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3617

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 116


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Magnifying the Bible through Art, Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, TN, 1958.

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. 116.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 157.

Inscriptions

in block, within image at upper left: 1510; in block, within image at lower left: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper left, in graphite by a later hand: 7; verso, upper left, in red pencil by a later hand: 162; verso, lower left in graphite by a later hand: B7

Watermarks

Name of Mary (Meder 316)

Wikidata ID

Q18338551


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