print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1922,1212.4
- Description
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Arrest in the garden; Christ at centre, surrounded by the soldiers, healing Malchus who is placed in the lower foreground; St Peter stands with his sabre to the right, St John escapes in the left background; with the two Saxon arms at upper right corner. 1509
Woodcut
- Production date
- 1509
- Dimensions
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Height: 245 millimetres (borderlines)
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Width: 168 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Part of a Passion series, consisting of fourteen woodcuts.
Two other impressions of the subject (one on paper, and a proof on vellum) are also extant at the BM.
See Dodgson and Hollstein for the different editions in which the woodcuts were used.
Cf. D. Koepplin / T. Falk, Lucas Cranach: Gemälde - Zeichnungen - Graphik, 2 vols, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Basel, 1974, no. 311.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Schön & Szasz, Ballgasse 4, Vienna
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,1212.4