Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

CALVARY

Circa 1503 – 1504

With monogram

Woodcut

213×146 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Middle of the 16th century

The first state, with a nail passing through the right hand of the left Thief

No watermark

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2232

Comments:

the quality of the impression (strokes in the outline of mountains and in the horizon are missing) is close to the impressions dated by Meder to 1560s (М. 120, I, g)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

Inv. Г-2231, on coarse yellowish paper without watermarks, from the plate where many strokes are missing. A late 16th – early 17th century impression