The Penance of Saint John Chrysostom
c. 1497
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Albrecht Dürer
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimed to plate): 18 × 11.9 cm (7 1/16 × 4 11/16 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.3460
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 54
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Peter Lely [1618 - 1680], London (Lugt 2092); The Hon. John Spencer, [1708 - 1746], Althorp (Lugt 1532); by descent through the Spencer family; (Spencer sale, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, 25 June 1919, lot no. 51); Hendrikus Egbertus Ten Cate [1868-1955], Almelo, Netherlands (Lugt 533b); (M Knoedler and Co., NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1969
Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 57, repro.
1970
Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 6A.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 4, repro.
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.
2001
Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 7.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; recto, bottom right, in brown ink by a later hand: A9 [?] 39; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 48; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.19385; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Cons 8570; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: J 4256 / K 8184; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?]
Wikidata ID
Q1211814