Saint George on Horseback, 1508

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 56

Accession Number

1943.3.3498

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

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]

Marks and Labels

none

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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
von Passavant-Gontard, Richard

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.