Saint Veronica between Saints Peter and Paul

1510

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Three figures with halos are depicted in close proximity, all in robes. The central figure is a woman holding a cloth displaying a man's face with a crown of thorns, flanked by two men with distinct facial hair. The woman and one of the men carry symbolic items. The figures are within an indoor setting with wooden textures in the background. An inscription dated 1510 is above the central figure and there is an artist mark at the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to block): 12.8 × 9.7 cm (5 1/16 × 3 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3654

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 147

  • Series Title

    The Small Woodcut Passion

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph Daniel Böhm [1794-1865], Vienna (Lugt 271); Robert Scholtz [1834-1912], Budapest (Lugt 2241); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1956

  • The Life of Christ in Prints, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1956-1957, no cat.

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.

1992

  • Hand, John Oliver, "Salve sancta facies: Some Thoughts on the Iconography of the Head of Christ by Petrus Christus." Metropolitan Museum Journal, 27(1992): 14, fig.6

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 2: no. 208.

Inscriptions

in block, upper center: 1510; in block, bottom center: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 627; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B 38; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: 23

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18338672

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