The Flagellation, 1512

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series Title

The Engraved Passion

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.7 × 7.4 cm (4 5/8 × 2 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 8

Accession Number

1943.3.3505

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, top left, in tablet: 1512 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 16 [upside down]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.8; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 25141

Provenance

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection, Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); Arthur Friederich Theodor Bohnenberger [1826-1893], Stuttgart (Lugt 68); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bohnenberger, Arthur Friederich Theodor
Brentano-Birckenstock Collection
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1929: Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 2.

1971: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 45, repro.

Bibliography

1932: Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001: Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 50.