Christ on the Mount of Olives, 1508

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series Title

The Engraved Passion

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.4 × 7.2 cm (4 1/2 × 2 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 4

Accession Number

1943.3.3499

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

recto, lower right, in plate: 1508 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: [illegible; sideways]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 20 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.4; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR 25146

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection, Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); Arthur Friederich Theodor Bohnenberger [1826-1893], Stuttgart (Lugt 68); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bohnenberger, Arthur Friederich Theodor
Brentano-Birckenstock Collection
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 4.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1, no. 46.