Saint Jerome in His Cell

1511

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 23.4 × 15.8 cm (9 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3676

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 228

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

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: no. 228.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 229.

Inscriptions

in block, bottom right, on ground: AD [artist's monogram]; in block, bottom right, on chest: 1511; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 29 [encircled]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B.114; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: [Ochsen?] [illegible] [erased]

Watermarks

possibly Meder 70

Wikidata ID

Q18339715

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