Christ Before Pilate

Durer, Albrecht

209314 Durer, Albrecht Christ Before Pilate (from the Small Passion) 1509-1511 B. 31; M., Holl. 140 5'' x 4'' Woodcut on laid paper, trimmed inside the borderline. Signed in the block with the monogram, center step. Undistinguished collector's stamp, forso, black ink. A "clear, pure" Meder D impression from an edition after 1511 without Latin text, with the 1/2 cm gap in the edge below and the damage in the right corners trimmed back. Meder makes specific reference to a Meder D impression as being pulled after 1550. One of thirty-six woodcuts from the Small Passion. 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. Two woodcuts, B. 32 and B. 37 are dated 1509 and two other woodcuts, B. 18 and B. 38 bear the date 1510. 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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5" x 4"

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