The Crucifixion called the Sword Pommel of Maximilian, c. 1518

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (diameter; trimmed to platemark): 3.81 cm (1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 24, state i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.3538

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

verso, upper half, in graphite by a later hand: Original / Passavant / Prestel; verso, center, in graphite by a later hand: 378.; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.23; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: C4265 [underlined]; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: C.9386

Provenance

Ralf Leopold von Retberg [1812-1885], Munich; (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Retberg
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 89.

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. 90.