Last Supper

Durer, Albrecht

199000 Durer, Albrecht Last Supper (from the Small Passion) B. 24, M. 133 1509-1511 5'' x 3 7/8'' Woodcut on thick laid paper with large margins. Signed in the block with the monogram, bottom center. Numerical script, black ink, forso. One of thirty-six woodcuts from the Small Passion. From the Italian edition of 1612 without text showing the two big and four small gaps in the upper border touched in with ink, the four gaps in the lower border touched in with ink, and the right upper corner "knocked". Originally Durer illustrated the cycle with the text by Benedict Schwalbe (Benedict Chelidonius) who died in 1521. Benedict 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 wood blocks of the Small Passion cycle were acquired by the British Museum in 1839. The frontispiece, The Man of Sorrows (B.16 Meder) is the only wood block that is not in existence.

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199000

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5" x 3 7/8"

Medium

WOODCUT

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