Saint Anthony Reading, 1519

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 10 × 14.4 cm (3 15/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Meder, no. 51

Accession Number

1943.3.3543

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Dürer (artist) German, 1471 - 1528

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, lower left: 1519 / AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 4 [sideways]; verso, lower center, in graphite by a later hand: B.58:D.91; verso, lower right, in brown ink by a later hand: 7:1.; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 386-

Provenance

(sale, Hollstein and Puppel, Berlin, 6 November 1929, lot 386); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1960: Prints by Albrecht Dürer, University of Kansas Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS, 1960, no. 33, repro.

1964: Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.

1968: L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 98, repro.

1970: Albrecht Dürer, 1471-1528: A Study Exhibition of Print Connoisseurship, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970-1971, no. 24A.

1971: Dürer in America: His Graphic Work, NGA, 1971, no. 70, repro.

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. 87.