Saint Christopher Facing Right
1521
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): 12 × 7.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.3560
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Catalogue Raisonné
Meder, no. 52
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. 9.
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 17, 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. 94.
Inscriptions
in plate, bottom left, on stone: 1521 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, center, in brown ink by a later hand: [quote from Vasari]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: C.5835 (1/2); verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: K 2320 / C 5821
Watermarks
none visible
Wikidata ID
Q64952695