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Albrecht Dürer
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Albrecht Dürer

Christ on the Mount of Olives (B., M., Holl. 19; S.M.S. 80)

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Albrecht Dürer
Christ on the Mount of Olives
(B., M., Holl. 19; S.M.S. 80)
etching, 1515, without watermark, a very fine Meder b impression, before all rustmarks, printing with intense, cleanly wiped highlights and some selective tone on the rocks at lower right, trimmed to or just outside the subject and retaining a fillet of blank paper outside the borderline in places, trimmed on or just inside the platemark below, a small pale brown stain below, otherwise in very good condition
S. 8 11/16 x 6 1/16 in. (221 x 154 mm.)

Kupferstichkabinett der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (L. 1606).
P. von Baldinger-Seidenberg (d. 1911), Stuttgart (L. 212); Gutekunst, Stuttgart, 7-11 May 1912, lot 289.
Henry Harper Benedict (1844-1935), New York (L. 2936).
British Rail Pension Fund; their sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 June 1987, lot 13 (£12,100).

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Dürer made at least two preparatory drawings for this etching. In the first, now in the Louvre (W. 584), the disciples are shown sleeping in the foreground. In the second (Albertina, Vienna, W. 585), used as the basis for the etching, he moved the disciples to the background and placed the figure of Christ in the foreground. All the emphasis is on Christ and the apparition of the angel above, while the narrative aspects of the scene, the sleeping disciples and the soldiers with their lances and torches coming for His arrest, are merely hinted at. The whole scene is shown in an intense, nervously flickering chiaroscuro, which heightens the sense of unrest and despair, as Christ says to His Father: O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt. (Matthew 26.39)

By further stressing the core of the narrative - Christ's dialogue with God - Dürer created a devotional image in the spirit of the devotio moderna, whose supporters were in search for a personal and immediate approach to God.