Saint Christopher

1513

Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

Albrecht Altdorfer

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 16.7 × 12.2 cm (6 9/16 × 4 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.372

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. w. 56


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Hollstein & Puppel, Berlin, auction XLIII, April 29-30. 1930, lot 37); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA , 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1963

  • Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963, no. 24.

1993

  • Wood, Christopher S. Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape. London, 1993: 249, fig. 183. (Revised edition, London, 2014: 290, 292 fig. 183.)

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. w. 56.

Wikidata ID

Q64952506

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