, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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The Crucifixion, 1511
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471
- 1528
engraving on laid paper
11.8 x 7.5 cm
Purchased 1949
National Gallery of Canada (no. 5609)
Dürer has excluded landscape and multiple figures in order to focus on the devotional vigil of the Virgin Mary and St. John, who stand to either side of the cross. In the background, a Roman centurion with a pickaxe waits indifferently.
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