Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit, from the Apocalypse series

1497–98

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Woodcut
Collection no.: 40.139.6(16)
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Albrecht Dürer. Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit, from the Apocalypse series. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. CC0 1.0. Compressed full-frame reproduction.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Angel with the Key to the Bottomless Pit, from the Apocalypse series — Albrecht Dürer. 1497–98.

Medium: Woodcut. Dimensions: .

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1940.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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