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The Trinity
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1515
Medium/Technique
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 29.7 × 21.7 cm (11 11/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Framed: 56.2 × 47 × 3.3 cm (22 1/8 × 18 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)
Framed: 56.2 × 47 × 3.3 cm (22 1/8 × 18 1/2 × 1 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
1931 Purchase Fund and Anna Mitchell Richards Fund
Accession Number36.418
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Four years after making a woodcut of "The Holy Trinity," Dürer redrew the central group of his composition, presumably for his own instruction and pleasure. In the drawing, the relationship between God the Father and the dead Christ is more tender than in the print.
Catalogue Raisonné
Winkler 583
Provenance1936, sold by Otto Gutekunst, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 8, 1936)