Christ Appearing to his Mother

Durer, Albrecht

153033 Durer, Albrecht Christ Appears to his Mother From The Small Passion c.1508-1510 B.46, M. 155 5'' x 3 7/8'' Woodcut on laid paper. Signed in the plate with the monogram lower center. One of thirty-six woodcuts from the Small Passion. An impression from the proof edition before 1511 without Latin text. Originally Durer illustrated the cycle with the text by Benedict Schwalbe (Benedict Chelidonius) who died in 1521. Bendedict was also a friend of Willibald Pirckheimer (who was Durer's life-long friend) and a Benedictine theologian from a nearby monastery. The Small Passion cycle is Durer's longest series of woodcuts and the best known of his series during the sixteenth century. The woodcuts were designed with a simpler, more direct treatment of subjects and they were executed in a more uniform style. Thirty-five of the retired wood blocks for the Small Passion cycle were acquired by the British Museum in 1839. The frontispiece, The Man of Sorrows (B.16, M.125) is the only wood block that is not in existence.

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153033

Size

5" x 3 7/8"

Year

c.1508-151

Medium

WOODCUT

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