Saint Jerome in a Cave

1512

Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

Albrecht Dürer

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Robert A. McNeil Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 17.2 × 12.9 cm (6 3/4 × 5 1/16 in.)
    block: 17 × 12.6 cm (6 11/16 × 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1992.43.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 229, State a/c


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Frederick Keppel & Co., NY); Lucy Leffingwell Pulling [1907-1979], Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY; (Paul McCarron, NY); purchased by NGA, 1992.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1995

  • Recent Acquisitions of Works of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch 113.

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. 2: no. 229.

2016

  • Brisman, Sheila. Albrecht Dürer & the Epistolary Mode of Address. Chicago, 2016: 115-116, fig. 4.6.

Inscriptions

center left in plate: AD; lower right in plate: 1512; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 5082; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: 80[51?] [faded]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: FCX; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: B. 113

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q18339714


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