The Entombment (The Deposition of Christ, from The Large Passion)
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
about 1496-1497
Woodcut on laid paper
Pre-publication proof
Sheet: 15 1/4 × 10 15/16 in. (38.8 × 27.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Jean K. Weil in memory of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935
PR.997.5.63
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in block, lower center: AD [monogram]; inscribed, in graphite, on verso: AW Watermark: Name of Mary (Meaume 316)
Exhibition History
A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 17-December 20, 1998.
Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, July 1-August 28, 1994, no. 47.
Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama, September 11-November 6, 1977; Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, July 2-August 14, 1978, no. 10.
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.92, no. 93.
Stacey Sell, Durer, Rembrandt & Beyond: From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1994, p. 22, fig. 27; p. 50, no. 47.
Diane J. Gingold, Master Prints from the Fifteenth through Eighteenth Centuries from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama: Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, 1977, pp. 30-31, no. 10, ill.
Provenance
Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York; lot 48; sold to Jean K. and Adolph Weil, Jr., Montgomery, Alabama, on May 14, 1974; given to present collection, 1997.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 12; Hollstein 123
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