Saint Sebastian Bound to the Column, probably 1498/1499

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 10.9 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 61, state i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.3476

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower left, on sheet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 60; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.11352; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B56 [underlined]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: gi [?]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: MA [underlined] / MJ [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 31 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: YD [?]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B56

Marks and Labels

FB 1602 (Lugt 365), verso, in graphite [old pen mark possibly disappeared?]

Provenance

purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1999: "Fate, Fortune, Nemesis: Albrecht Durer at the Century's End", Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 1999.

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. 25.