The Crucifixion, from The Large Passion
Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471 - 1528
about 1498; published late 17th century
Woodcut on laid paper
Augsburg edition of 1675 or Ulm edition of 1690
Sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 in. (39.4 × 28 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Hamilton S. Foster, Class of 1945P
PR.943.7
Geography
Place Made: Germany, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in block, lower center: AD [in monogram]; collector's mark on reverse: (?) TH
Course History
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Marlene Heck, Winter 2012
ARTH 43, Northern Renaissance Art, Jane Carroll, Winter 2012
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2013
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Art Historical Theory and Method, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Joy Kenseth, Mary Coffey, Winter 2014
ARTH 85, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Fall 2014
ARTH 2, Introduction to the History of Art II, Mary Coffey, Joy Kenseth, Winter 2019
HIST 96.31, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages Reconsidered: Art, Artists, and Cultural Change in the ‘Northern Renaissance,’ 1350–1575, Walter Simons, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Medieval into Renaissance, Ivan Albright Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 21-April 24, 1994.
Prints & Drawings of the Northern Renaissance, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 21-July 11, 1976.
Realism and Invention in the Prints of Albrecht Durer, The Art Gallery, Paul Creative Arts Center, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, November 1-December 11, 1995; Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, January 11-February 25, 1996.
Provenance
Hamilton S. Foster; given to present collection, 1943.
Catalogue Raisonne
Bartsch 11; Meder 120; Knappe 190 Willi Kurth, The Complete Woodcuts of Albrecht Durer, p.21
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