Saint George on Horseback

1508

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 10.9 × 8.4 cm (4 5/16 × 3 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3498

  • 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


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