Saint Peter
c. 1450/1460
Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 9.5 × 6.1 cm (3 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.196
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.168, no. 100, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale 162, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 November 1929, no. 440); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 64.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 5.
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 5, repro.
Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 28, repro.
Bibliography
1908
Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
1967
Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 5.
Inscriptions
at top, in halo, in plate: S Petrus; at top, in banderole, in plate: Credo in deum patrem onipotent creatorem celi et terre (I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth)
Wikidata ID
Q64960406