Saint George Standing

c. 1502/1503

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.2 × 7.1 cm (4 7/16 × 2 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3495

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 55


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Carl Schlösser [1827 - 1884], Elberfeld and Frankfurt (Lugt 636); George Thomas Clough [1839 - 1928], London (Lugt 1220); Marsden Jasael Perry [1850 - 1935], Providence, RI (Lugt 1880); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 32.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 34.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom left, on tablet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top center, in graphite by a later hand: B 53; verso, center left, in graphite by a later hand: EE 635; verso, center left, in graphite by a later hand: E [?] 027; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: 33 [upside down]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: Dürer [underlined] B.53. St. George - standing. / From the collection of Carl Schloesser Elberfield of Frankfurt. / + another not known to Fagan.; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: J.C. [underlined] / md [?] [encircled]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: v [?] / Ↄ u [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: -3 [erased]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: M29; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: FHH [?] [faint]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 1584 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 36; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 14625; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: 46

Markings

none

Watermarks

Bull's head fragment (Meder 64)

Wikidata ID

Q18338516


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