PrintsGerman16th century

Saint Christopher Facing Left

1521

Artists

Albrecht DürerArtist

Classification

Prints

Technique

Engraving

Medium

Engraving on off-white antique laid paper

Culture

German

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Prints

Dimensions

sheet: 12 × 7.8 cm (4 3/4 × 3 1/16 in.) overall: 14.2 × 10.3 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/16 in.)

Provenance

Unidentified collectors (marks not in Lugt). [Hill-Stone, New York], sold; to Mariot F. Solomon, Cambridge, 2011, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Related Artworks

Prints

Crowning with Thorns

Albrecht Dürer, 1512

Engraving printed in black ink on white laid paper

The Man of Sorrows Standing by the Column

Albrecht Dürer, 1509

Engraving printed in black innk on white laid paper

Engraving on white antique laid paper

16th centuryGerman

Prints

Hercules Receives from Deianeira a Garment Steeped in the Blood of Nessus

Sebald Beham, 16th century

16th centuryGerman

Prints

Lovers with a Spectator

Johann Ladenspelder, 1542

16th centuryGerman

Prints

Saint Anthony Reading

Albrecht Dürer, 1519

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

16th centuryGerman

Prints

Sophonisba Drinking Poison

Heinrich Aldegrever, 1553

Engraving printed in black ink on white antique laid paper

16th centuryGerman

Prints

Melencolia I

Unidentified Artist, 16th-19th century

Engraving printed in black ink on beige laid paper

16th-19th centuryGerman

Prints

Virgin Nursing the Child

Unidentified Artist, 16th and 19th century

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

16th and 19th centuryGerman