Saint Christopher Seated by a River Bank

c. 1515/1517

Albrecht Altdorfer

Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

Albrecht Altdorfer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 12.2 × 9.3 cm (4 13/16 × 3 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.373

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    New Hollstein, no. w. 57

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971). 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. 85.

1996

  • The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. w. 57.

1998

  • Peter Humfrey. "Two Moments in Dosso's Career as a Landscape Painter." Dosso's Fate: Painting and Court Culture in Renaissance Italy. (1998): p. 206, fig. 6.

Wikidata ID

Q64952507

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