Saint Christopher, c. 1520

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

block: 30.1 x 21.6 cm (11 7/8 x 8 1/2 in.)

sheet: 30.7 x 22.2 cm (12 1/16 x 8 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Anonymous Gift

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 354, State only

Accession Number

2003.48.1

Artists / Makers

Sebald Beham (artist) German, 1500 - 1550

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, lower left in graphite: 4714 - 1877 / B. App. 16; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B. App. 16 B. 116 H. 2013

Provenance

Kupferstichkabinet, Staatlichen Museen, Berlin (Lugt 1607 and deacession stamp, Lugt 2482); Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin [1825 - 1879], Leipzig (Lugt 2612); (August Laube, Zurich); purchased 2003 by NGA.

Associated Names

Drugulin, Wilhelm Eduard
Laube, August
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1808: vol. 7 (Dürer), no. App. 16, p. 179.

1911: Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901: no. 892 alpha.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Sebald Beham, Anne Röver-Kann, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2024: no. 354.