Christ on the Mount of Olives, c. 1522

Not on View

Medium

woodcut from 2 blocks on laid paper

Dimensions

block: 29.2 x 44 cm (11 1/2 x 17 5/16 in.)

sheet: 29.9 x 44.8 cm (11 3/4 x 17 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2005.14.2

Artists / Makers

Hans Weiditz, II (artist) German, 1500 or before - c. 1536

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 20656/graal / (not deciphered); by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: agt; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: hans Weiditz 1500 [Geisberg nr. 1499] 3739A

Provenance

(R. M. Light & Co., Inc., Santa Barbara); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

Light, Robert M., Mr.

Exhibition History

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 11, repro. detail, p.10-11.