Saint Simon, 1523

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 11.8 × 7.6 cm (4 5/8 × 3 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 49

Accession Number

1943.3.3549

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower right: 1523 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 55 [upside down]; verso, lower left, in brown ink by a later hand: D. AG 1825 [or 1865?] / sf [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 41 [?]; verso, lower left, in graphite by a later hand: 239

Provenance

Ernst Friedrich Georg Otto von der Malsburg [1786-1824], Dresden; (Schloss E auction, Hollstein and Puppel, May 6-8, 1929, lot 239); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Malsburg, Ernst Friederich Georg Otto von der
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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. 95.