About the Artwork
Christ before Pilate
1512
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
Unknown
Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Plate: 4 5/8 × 3 inches (11.7 × 7.6 cm) Sheet: 5 × 3 1/2 inches (12.7 × 8.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
30.395
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed in plate, lower right: [monogram]
Inscribed in pencil, verso: [several numeric notations] Dated in plate, lower right
Watermark: 3 lines [possibly fraction of Meder 53 or 56?] Stamp in black, verso: Dr. C. D. Ginsburg (Lugt 1145)
Provenance
C. D. Ginsburg (Palmer's Green, England). 1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Dodgson, C. Albrecht Durer. New York, 1967, no. 56.
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Albrecht Dürer, Christ before Pilate, 1512, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.395.
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