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Identification and Creation

Object Number
M25417
People
Albrecht Dürer, German (Nuremberg 1471 - 1528 Nuremberg)
Title
Christ on the Mount of Olives
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Agony of Christ in the Garden
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1515
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/100193

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Etching printed in black ink on white laid paper
Technique
Etching
Dimensions
image with border: 22.3 x 15.6 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: 1515 / AD
  • inscription: verso: lower left and lower center, various graphite inscriptions: 19 B 19 M 19
  • collector's mark: vero: lower center, purple ink, stamps: [two independent marks, virtually illegible] R: MVS. [Rijksmuseum (Lugt 2228 or Lugt 2228a)] DUBBEL / R.P.K. [duplicate stamp of the Rijksmuseum]
  • inscription: lower edge, center, toward right, etched artist's monogram and date printed in black ink: 1515 / AD
  • collector's mark: verso, blue stamp with accession number written below in graphite: THE WILLIAM HAYES FOGG / ART MUSEUM OF / HARVARD UNIVERSITY / M25417 [Lugt 936]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Rijksmuseum Rijks Prentenkabinet, Amsterdam (2228 or 2228a), sale as duplicate, 1882. There was a duplicate auction sale on 2-4 May 1882, in Amsterdam (Muller, Lugt Repertoire du ventes vol.3, no.42003), the period in which von Kuffner was purchasing prints, per Adrian Eeles, print specialist at C. G. Boerner/Artemis.
von Kuffner, Collector, 1882. As per Adrian Eeles, print specialist at C.G. Boerner/Artemis, the Fogg's source for this print.

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
Meder 1b
Edition
before rust
Standard Reference Number
Bartsch, Hollstein, Meder 19, Strauss 82

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2002
Object Number
M25417
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Susan Dackerman, "Dürer's etchings: printed drawings?", exh. cat., ed. Michael Cole, Pennsylvania State University Press (University Park, Penn., 2006), repr. as fig 29 on p. 41

Verification Level

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