Christ on the Mount of Olives

Artist Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471 - 1528)

Date1515

MediumIron etching

DimensionsImage/Sheet: 8 11/16 × 6 1/8 in. (22 × 15.6 cm)

Credit LineBequest of Robert Getscher from the Getscher-Wilkinson Collection

CultureGerman

MarkingsNo visible watermark; partial collector stamp at bottom center verso: Lugt 2910

InscribedDürer's monogram AD at bottom center; 1515 above monogram

Catalogue raisonnéMeder 19b (after rust marks); Bartsch 19

Object numberPC2014.14.148

ClassificationsPrint Collection

DescriptionBearded Christ kneels with hands together in prayer in foreground facing right and looking up; at top right head and wings of angel and chalice with cross at top; large tree with branches curved to left, as if blown back by force of angel in left mid-ground, group of three apostles doze in left mid-ground; in left background, tiny, faintly sketched group with a torch enters the garden gate.

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