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Albrecht Dürer
Sudarium Spread Out by a Angel, 1516
etching printed in black ink printed on paper attached at all corners to mat
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Artist Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
Title
  • Sudarium Spread Out by a Angel
  • The Sudarium Held by One Angel (Hollstein) (alternate title)
  • Das Schweisstuch, von einem Engel gehalten (alternate title)
Date 1516
Medium etching printed in black ink printed on paper attached at all corners to mat
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 7 1/4 × 5 1/4 inches (18.4 × 13.3 cm)
Credit Line Founders Society Purchase, Charles L. Freer Fund
Accession Number 59.262
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed and dated, in plate, lower right edge: 1516 | [artist's monogram]
1959-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 84.