Saint George on Horseback
1508
Artist, German, 1471 - 1528
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 10.9 × 8.4 cm (4 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3498
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 56
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard von Passavant-Gontard [1852-1923], Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, lot 371); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1929
Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 20.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 40, 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. 41.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom center: 1508 [corrected from 1505] / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center right, in graphite by a later hand: 371 [encircled]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 43 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: C.14967 [?] [smudged]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.54; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: B.54; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: H 6 [?] [faded/erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 7.0 [?] [faded/erased]
Markings
none
Watermarks
Bull's head (fragment), Meder 62 or 64
Wikidata ID
Q18338446