Saint Eustace

c. 1500/1501

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

    plate: 35.7 x 26 cm (14 1/16 x 10 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 37 x 27.3 cm (14 9/16 x 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.1.16

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 60

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Knoedler & Co., New York); purchased 1929 by R. Horace Gallatin [1871-1948], New York; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1970

  • Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 13D.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 21.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

1999

  • Religion and Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context, Marsh Art Gallery, Richmond, 1999, no. 22.

2000

  • The Power of Appearances: Renaissance and Reformation Portrait Prints and Medals, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover; The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, 2000-2001.

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.

1999

  • Johnson, Charles. Religion & Politics: The Renaissance Print in Social Context. Exh. cat. Marsh Art Gallery, University of Richmond, 1999: no. 22; illus, p.67.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 32.

Inscriptions

in plate, bottom center, in sheet: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 57; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 31509; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B - 15222 [upside down]

Markings

verso, stamp in black ink on bottom left corner: JO [?]; R. Horace Gallatin-National Gallery stamp.

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q3948861

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