Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

THE ENTOMBMENT [DEPOSITION] OF CHRIST

Circa 1496 – 1497

Sheet 9 from the series “The Large Passion”

With monogram

Woodcut

385×277 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

1511

Watermark:
a tower with a crown and a flower

Provenance:

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

Inv. Г-2390

Comments:

the impression is with Latin text on the back; from the 1511 edition (M. 123, II)

Other impressions in the Museum collections:

1) Inv. Г-2389, on paper without watermarks, with Latin text on the back; from the 1511 edition;

2) Inv. Г-2391, on paper with a watermark: Gothic letters Р и А (М. 325, Br. 8829; 1570), an impression without text on the back, dating from 1570s (М. 123, II, a)