Saint Sebastian
c. 1480/1490
Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 15.7 x 11.3 cm (6 3/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.65
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 65, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gerhard Güttler [1889-1966], Berlin (Lugt 2807b); Clendenin J. Ryan, Sr. [1881-1939], New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 17 January 1940, no. 17); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 90.
1945
Postcard Prints of the National Gallery, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1945-1946, no catalogue.
1947
National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, D.C., 1947.
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.
1955
Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.
1956
Prints, 1400-1800, only Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MN, 1956, not in catalogue.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 82, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 24.
1997
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
2018
The Renaissance Nude, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2018-2019.
Bibliography
1908
Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
1949
Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge
1967
Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 82.
1996
Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 55, 57; fig.1.40, 58.
Watermarks
small bull's head with Saint Anthony's cross
Wikidata ID
Q64960267