Live Auction 7375The Genius of the German Renaissance: Prints by Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Lot 22

Albrecht Dürer

The Deposition, from The Large Passion (B. 12; M., Holl. 123; S.M.S. 163)

Closed4 December 2007

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GBP 11,250

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Albrecht Dürer
The Deposition, from The Large Passion (B. 12; M., Holl. 123; S.M.S. 163)
woodcut, circa 1496/97, a fine, rich and even impression, before the Latin text edition of 1511, the block very slightly slipped in the printing, watermark Name of Mary (M. 316), with 5-8 mm. margins all around, in very good condition
B. 390 x 278 mm., S. 403 x 209 mm.

P. Stroobants (his stamps recto and verso, not in Lugt).

Specialist note

Dürer follows the text of the gospel quite closely. Joseph of Arimathea is at the right, depicted as a wealthy burgher of Nuremberg, holding Christ's feet. Despite this being a nocturnal scene he did not attempt to depict the darkness, as he would in the last plate of the series, the Resurrection (lot 83), created about thirteen years later.