Albrecht Dürer
The Lamentation

CultureGerman
Titles
  • The Lamentation
  • from The Small Woodcut Passion series
Date1511
MediumWoodcut on laid paper
DimensionsBlock/Sheet: 4 15/16 × 3 3/4 in. (12.5 × 9.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Lewis Coulson in honor of Susan Schulman
Object number2022.307
Not on view

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ProvenanceThe artist, c. 1511; Munich Graphische Sammlung, Munich, 1806 (Lugt 1495); Lessing Rosenwald, Sears Corporate Collection; [Paul McCaron, New York, by August 1988]; Dr. Lewis Coulson, Chicago, 1988-2022; given to MFAH, 2022.
Exhibition HistoryNone known
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in printed ink, in block, center bottom edge: AD
Verso: Inscribed in brown ink, bottom left corner: 20 Nov. / 1806
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: [illegible]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom right corner: 58696 [encircled]
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom right corner: [crossed-out]

Recto: Inscribed in plate, lower center: artist’s monogram
Verso: Stamped and inscribed in black ink, bottom left corner: Lugt 1495 (1) and 20 [illegible] [?]/1806

Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom left corner: encircled numerals 58696
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, center bottom edge: [?]43
Verso: Inscribed in graphite, bottom right corner: 91-34

(1). This mark was used by the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung (National Graphic Arts Collection) in Munich, Germany, during the reign of Max Joseph I, king of Bavaria from 1806-1825.

Verso: Stamp in black ink, bottom left corner
Catalogue raisonnéMeder 152, Schoch 213, Kurth 249, Bartsch 43, Hollstein 152

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