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The Trinity

The Trinity

(German, 1471–1528)
1515
Medium/TechniquePen and brown ink on cream laid paper
DimensionsSheet: 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.)
Credit Line1931 Purchase Fund and Anna Mitchell Richards Fund
Accession number36.418
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
Description
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.
Provenance1936, sold by Otto Gutekunst, London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 8, 1936)