Saint George Killing the Dragon

1501/1504

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 23.2 × 15.8 cm (9 1/8 × 6 1/4 in.)
    block: 21 × 14.2 cm (8 1/4 × 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.3597

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 225

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Alexandre-Pierre-François Robert-Dumesnil [1778-1864], Paris (Lugt 2200); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

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: no. 225.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 138.

Inscriptions

in block, bottom right, on stone: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, top left, in graphite by a later hand: 111 [?} [erased]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 54 [?] [erased]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 63 [underlined]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 30796; verso, bottom right, in graphite by a later hand: B 6565 [?] [erased]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64952735

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