Saint Benedict Reviving a Monk Killed by the Devil, c. 1505

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with graphite framing lines on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.3 x 17.1 cm (9 3/16 x 6 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund

Accession Number

2004.90.1

Artists / Makers

Hans Leonard Schäufelein (artist) German, c. 1480/1485 - 1538/1540

Image Use

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Provenance

Professor Jean Cantacuzino, Bucharest (1863 - 1934); by inheritance to his son, Alexandre Cantacuzino, Bucharest and Constantinople (1901 - 1980)(1); his heirs through mid 1980s; (sold to the antiquarian booksellers, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne); Private collection, Northern Germany, 1987; (purchased by Jörn Günther, Hamburg, 2000); German private collection (sale, Sotheby's London, 8 July 2004, no. 21); purchased 2004 by NGA.

(1) See provenance notes in object file.

Associated Names

Cantacuzène, Alexandre
Cantacuzène, Jean
Günther, Jörn
Private Collection, Northern Germany
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

2004: Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

2012: The Early Dürer, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2012.

2018: Dürer e il Rinascimento Tedesco, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2018.

Bibliography

1936: Winkler, Friedrich. Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. 2 vols. Berlin, 1936: 1: no. 206 (as Albrecht Dürer).

1971: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1971, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg, 1971: 388, under no. 718.

1974: Strauss, Walter. The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. 6 vols. New York, 1974: VI: 2960, no. XW206 (as workshop of Dürer), and 2954, under no. XW203.

1988: Rowlands, John. The age of Dürer and Holbein: German Drawings 1400 - 1550. London, 1988: 70 (as Dürer).

1991: Scholz, Hartmut. Entwurf und Ausführung, Werkstattpraxis in her Nürnberger Glasmalerei der Dürerzeit. Berlin, 1991 (Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi, Deutschland Studien Band 1), 41, 43, 44, n. 135, 45, nn. 142, 144, 46, fig. 49.

1993: Rowlands, John. Drawings by German Artists. 2 vols. London, 1993: 1:66 (as by Dürer).

2000: Butts, Barbara; Lee Hendrix, et al. Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein, 98, 99, 100, n. 2, fig. 14 (as Albrecht Dürer).

2002: Koreny, Fritz. "Albrecht Dürer oder Hans Schäufelein? Eine Neubewertung des 'Benediktmeisters,'" Zeitschrift des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft 56/57 (2002-2003): 145, 147, 150, 153, 155, 157, 158, 160, figs. 9, 18, 29.