Saint Christopher

c. 1460

Master of the Dutuit Mount of Olives

Artist, German, active c. 1450/1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored engraving on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 6.7 × 4.5 cm (2 5/8 × 1 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 9.1 × 6.6 cm (3 9/16 × 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.9

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, undescribed


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Art of the Medieval Period, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1955, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 28, repro.

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.

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. 28.

Wikidata ID

Q65081221


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