Saint Christopher Facing Left

1521

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): 11.8 × 7.5 cm (4 5/8 × 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3547

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 53

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lawson Thompson [1837-1919], Hitchin (Hertfordshire, England) (Lugt 1770); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; 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. 17.

1931

  • Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 16, repro.

1969

  • Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 72, 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. 93.

Inscriptions

in plate, lower right, on stone: 1521 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 50 [upside down]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.5834; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: K. 2319 [underlined] / C.3092; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 56; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B.51.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64952684

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