Art, literature & history
Christ Descending into Hell
c. 1513
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- woodcut on laid paper
- Dimensions
- block: 7.2 × 4.8 cm (2 13/16 × 1 7/8 in.) sheet: 8 × 5.8 cm (3 1/8 × 2 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1941.1.142
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Albrecht Altdorfer. Christ Descending into Hell. Albrecht Altdorfer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_Altdorfer,_Christ_Descending_into_Hell,_c._1513,_NGA_720.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Christ Descending into Hell — Albrecht Altdorfer. c. 1513.
Medium: woodcut on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): block: 7.2 × 4.8 cm (2 13/16 × 1 7/8 in.) sheet: 8 × 5.8 cm (3 1/8 × 2 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1941.1.142. Gift of W.G. Russell Allen.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.