Albrecht Dürer

(Nuremberg1471-1528)
The Betrayal of Christ, 1510, from the series "The Great Passion", woodcut on laid paper, monogrammed and dated AD 1510, 39,4 x 28,2 cm, trimmed along framing lines, old mounting on a later laid paper, Bartsch 7, Meder 116 III a (of e), edition without text after 1511, mounted, unframed, (Sch)
Provenance:
Library of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna, Lugt 1628;
Private collection, South Germany

Excellent and even impression of the earliest edition without text after 1511. Prior to the square repair of the bloc on the back of Malches. With full framing lines and tiny margins. Traces of wear at margins, the paper somewhat darkened and minutely stained, but otherwise in very good condition.