About the Artwork
Christ Carrying the Cross
1509
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper
Image: 5 × 3 7/8 inches (12.7 × 9.8 cm) Sheet: 5 × 3 7/8 inches (12.7 × 9.8 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
21.128
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed on block, lower right: [monogram]
Inscribed in ink, verso, lower left, right, center: [numerical notations] Dated on block, lower right
Stamps in black and brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1606 and 2922)
Provenance
1881, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany). 1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 81.
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Albrecht Dürer, Christ Carrying the Cross, 1509, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.128.
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