Christ on the Mount of Olives

probably c. 1509/1510

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/block: 12.7 × 9.8 cm (5 × 3 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 13.6 × 10.8 cm (5 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3670

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 162


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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. 162.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 223.

Inscriptions

in block, bottom right: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, upper center, in color pencil by a later hand: 210; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: CD. 60; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B 54; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C 18572; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 2; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 26; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 46

Wikidata ID

Q18339648


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