Saint George on Horseback

1508

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of R. Horace Gallatin

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 10.9 × 8.5 cm (4 5/16 × 3 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.1.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 56


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich Kalle [1804-1875], Cologne and Bonn (Lugt 1021); Francis Seymour Haden [1818-1910], London and Arlesford (Lugt 1227); (Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1914 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871 - 1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

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. 41.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center: 1508 [corrected from 5] / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: a [?] 54028 [?] [obscured by former hinge]; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B-15, 221 [upside down]

Markings

none

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18338446


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