The Fall of Mankind

Artist:: Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien) (German, Schwäbisch Gmünd (?) 1484/85–1545 Strasbourg (Strassburg))

Date:: 1511

Medium:: Chiaroscuro woodcut in two blocks, printed in grey-brown and black; seocnd of two states

Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 15/16 × 10 3/16 in. (38 × 25.8 cm)

Classification:: Prints

Credit Line:: Gift of Felix M. Warburg and his family, 1941

Accession Number:: 41.1.37

Not on view

Inscription: Lettered in block, on upper plaque: 'LAPSUS HUMA: / NI GENERIS'; on lower left plaque: 'HBG [intertwined] / 1511'

Felix Moritz Warburg, and his family; Donor: Felix Moritz Warburg (American), and his family

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Print in the North," May 06, 1997 - July 13, 1997.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," September 19, 1994–November 27, 1994.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 17, 2006–January 7, 2007.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," June 13, 2011–September 18, 2011.

Hollstein II.76.3 ii/ii; The Illustrated Bartsch Baldung.13.3

F. W. H. Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, ca. 1400–1700. Amsterdam, 1954, cat. no. II.76.3 ii/ii, p. 76.

Timelines
Central Europe (including Germany), 1400-1600 A.D.

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