About the Artwork
The Descent from the Cross
between 1509 and 1511
Albrecht Dürer
1471-1528
German
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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)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
City of Detroit Purchase
21.132
Public Domain
Markings
Signed on block, lower left: [monogram]
Inscribed in pencil, verso: [numeric notations]
Watermark: fragment, lower left edge Stamps in brown, verso: Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1609 and 2922)
Provenance
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: Engravings and Etchings. New York, 1967, no. 86.
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Credit Line for Reproduction
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.
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