Saint Christopher
c. 1520
Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
block: 30.1 x 21.6 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)
sheet: 30.7 x 22.2 cm (12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.) -
Accession
2003.48.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 354, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Kupferstichkabinet, Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1607 and deacession stamp, Lugt 2482); Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin [1825 - 1879], Leipzig (Lugt 2612); (August Laube, Zurich); purchased 2003 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1802
Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1808: vol. 7 (Dürer), no. App. 16, p. 179.
1911
Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte_ 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901: no. 892 alpha.
1996
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Sebald Beham, Anne Röver-Kann, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2024: no. 354.
Inscriptions
by later hand, lower left in graphite: 4714 - 1877 / B. App. 16; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B. App. 16 B. 116 H. 2013
Wikidata ID
Q76357394