PrintsGerman16th century

Beheading of John the Baptist

1510

Artists

Albrecht DürerArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Woodcut

Medium

Woodcut printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

German

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

block: 19.3 × 12.9 cm (7 5/8 × 5 1/16 in.) sheet: 20.8 × 14.2 cm (8 3/16 × 5 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Moritz von Kuffner, Vienna, Collector. Von Kuffner was a later 19th-c. collector. His family retained the collection until recently, and has been selling the prints through Artemis, the firm from whom the museum purchased this print in 2003.

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