Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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HARROWING OF HELL; CHRIST IN LIMBO

1512

Sheet 13 from the series “The Engraved Passion”

Monogram and date 1512

Copperplate engraving

117×75 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

First half of the 16th century

No watermark

Provenance:

State Hermitage;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1862;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-2145

Comments:

the impression is brownish, from an intact plate. Nevertheless, the strokes are thin, not permitting to classify the impression among the first ones

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-5198, on paper without watermarks, made approximately in the same time as Inv. Г-2145