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Albrecht Altdorfer

Saint Christopher, c. 1515/1520

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Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 6.5 x 5.9 cm (2 9/16 x 2 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. e. 20, State only

Accession Number

1983.10.1

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Altdorfer (artist) German, 1480 or before - 1538

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Inscription

upper center in plate: A; on verso in graphite: [S?] Christophe / B.79

Provenance

Unidentified collector (BW? circled), Felix Somary

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

Bibliography

1963: Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. e. 20, state only.

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