Christ before Herod, 1509

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Image: 5 1/4 × 3 3/4 inches (13.3 × 9.5 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 4 1/4 inches (13.7 × 10.8 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.126

Signed on block, lower left: [monogram]

Watermark: fragment along center left edge Stamps in brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1609 and 2922)

Inscribed in pencil, verso: [numeric notations] Dated on block, lower left

1881, Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen (Berlin, Germany). 1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 75.

Albrecht Dürer, Christ before Herod, 1509, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.126.