ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE SWISS COLLECTION
ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)

Saint George on Horseback

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ALBRECHT DÜRER (1471-1528)
Saint George on Horseback
engraving
circa 1505/08
on laid paper, without watermark
a very fine Meder b/c impression
printing sharply, with strong contrasts, great clarity and depth
with traces of plate tone to the right of the horse's head
trimmed to or just inside the platemark
in very good condition
Sheet 108 x 84 mm.
来源
Giovanni Battista Maggi (active 1831-1880), Turin and Florence (Lugt 1776 recto).
Walter Francis, Duke of Buccleuch (1806-1884), London & Dalkeith, Scotland (Lugt 402); his sale, Christie's, London, 9-22 April 1887, lot 1539 (£ 9.9; to Lauser).
With Gustav Lauser, London.
With Kennedy Galleries, New York (their stock number A 21674.2 in pencil verso).
With E. & R. Kistner, Nuremberg.
Private Collection, Switzerland; acquired from the above in 1993; then by descent to the present owners.
出版
Bartsch 54; Meder, Hollstein 56; Schoch Mende Scherbaum 41

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Saint George – the patron saint of England - was a Roman Soldier and one of the early Christian martyrs, already venerated in the 5th century. His identification as dragon slayer was first established in the 13th century, when Jacopo da Voragine recounted his heroic feat in the Legenda Aurea: defeating the dragon, he freed the city of Silene in Libya and saved the king’s daughter offered in sacrifice to the beast. This tale of heroism made the warrior Saint a favourite character of medieval chivalric romance and inspired many Renaissance artists, from Paolo Uccello to Albrecht Dürer, who depicted him in several prints. In this exquisite little engraving, the Saint is shown after the fight, in a solemn and celebratory moment of repose, with the corpse of the beast lying below his horse on the ground. This figure of Saint George, a Christian hero on horseback, is a precursor to one of Dürer’s most famous prints: Knight, Death and the Devil (see lot 23).

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