Mocking of the Christ by Albrecht Durer

from 'The Small Passion'

c. 1509 - 1511

M. 139

5" x 3 3/16"

Woodcut on laid paper with full margins. Signed in the block with the monogram of the artist, lower left. An impression from the Latin text edition of 1511, with Latin text on the verso.

One of thirty-six woodcuts from the Small Passion.

Originally, Durer illustrated the cycle with the text by Benedict Schwalbe (Benedict Chelidonius) who died in 1521. Benedict was also a friend of Willibald Pirckheimer (who was Durer's life-long friend) and a Benedictine theologian from a nearby monastery.

The Small Passion cycle is Durer's longest series of woodcuts and the best known of his series during the sixteenth century.

Thirty-five of the wood blocks of the Small Passion cycle were acquired by the British Museum in 1839. The frontispiece, The Man of Sorrows (B. 16 Meder) is the only woodblock that is not in existence.

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