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The Descent from the Cross

The Descent from the Cross, between 1509 and 1511

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper

Image: 5 × 3 7/8 inches (12.7 × 9.8 cm) Sheet: 5 3/8 × 4 1/8 inches (13.7 × 10.5 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.132

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Woodcut (process)

Woodcut (print)

Signed on block, lower left: [monogram]

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

Inscribed in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]

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. 86.

Albrecht Dürer, The Descent from the Cross, between 1509 and 1511, woodcut printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.132.