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Job on the Dungheap, Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer
Job on the Dungheap
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Albrecht Dürer: Pfeifer und Trommler rechte Flügelinnenseite des sog. "Jabach-Altars"), um 1505, Mischtechnik auf Lindenholz, 94 x 51 cm, Inv.-Nr. WRM 0369, Sammlung Ferdinand Franz Wallraf, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Köln

Albrecht Dürer: Hll. Joseph und Joachim (linke Flügelaußenseite des sog. "Jabach-Altars"), um 1505, Mischtechnik auf Lindenholz, 96,6 x 54,5 cm, Inv.-Nr. WAF 228, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, München

Albrecht Dürer: Hll. Simeon und Lazarus (rechte Flügelaußenseite des sog. "Jabach-Altars"), um 1505, Mischtechnik auf Lindenholz, 97 x 55,1 cm, Inv.-Nr. WAF 229, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, München

Albrecht Dürer

Job on the Dungheap, ca. 1505

Dimensions
96 x 51.5 x min. 0.4 cm
height (sides)
79.1 cm
maximum depth
0.4 cm
Physical Description
Mixed technique on lime wood
Inventory Number
890
Acquisition
Acquired in 1840
Status
On display, 2nd upper level, Old Masters, room 2

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Along with the depiction of two musicians (Cologne, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum) this panel – later trimmed at the top – once formed the exterior of an altar retable. Job is an Old Testament figure who is repeatedly smitten with bad luck and tested by God. Here, he endures his trials on a dung heap, accompanied by his wife and friends. The latter attempt to cheer him up with music, while his spouse administers a jet of water to her sick husband in what may be an allusion to the ‘Bath of Job’ chapel in Annaberg, Saxony, presumably the painting’s original location.

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14.05.2025