Christ Carrying the Cross, 1512

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series Title

The Engraved Passion

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.6 × 7.4 cm (4 9/16 × 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Philip Hofer

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 12

Accession Number

1941.3.3

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate at top right, on tablet: 1512 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.16318; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.12; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B-286 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: P17653

Marks and Labels

NGA stamp (not Rosenwald)

Provenance

Philip Hofer [1898 - 1984], Cambridge, MA; gift to NGA (Lugt 1932d), 1941.

Associated Names

Hofer, Philip

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. 1: no. 54.