St. Catherine of Alexandria

Albrecht Dürer  (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)

Date:
1490–1528
Medium:
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions:
6 1/2 x 2 15/16 in. (16.5 x 7.5 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1918
Accession Number:
19.75
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Verso, bottom right, in graphite: 19.75

    Marking: Recto, bottom right: MMA stamp Verso: illegible black chalk sketch Verso, bottom right: MMA stamp On removed mount in paintings folder: Collector's mark of Ambrose Poynter, L.161 Collector's mark of Thomas Banks, L.2423 Collector's mark of Edward J. Poynter, L.874

  • Provenance

    Thomas Banks (British, Lambeth baptised 1738–1805 London); Barbara M. Foster(daughter of T. Banks), London; Ambrose Poynter (British, London 1796–1886); Sir Edward John Poynter (British (born France), Paris 1836–1919 London); Sotheby's, London, April 24–25, 1918, lot 244 (to Douglas); Vendor: Robert Langton Douglas (British, London 1864–1951)

  • References

    Sir William Martin Conway, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool The Art of Albrecht Dürer Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Liverpool, Apr 16-Jun 11, 1910, cat. no. 510, p. 30.

    Campbell Dodgson "Notes and Sketches by Albrecht Dürer" Dürer Society. Dürer Society, XII, London, 1911, cat. no. under no. I, p. 7.

    Campbell Dodgson "Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters: part 6 (first series, 1905-15)". 6, London, 1910-1911, cat. no. 24, fig. no. 24, ill.

    Sotheby's, London, sale April 25, 1918. London, 1918, cat. no. 244, p. 51.

    Bryson Burroughs "Drawings from the Pembroke Collection" Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. vol. 14, no. 6, New York, June 1919, pp. 138-39, ill.

    Frits Lugt Les marques de collections de dessins et d'estampes. Marques estampillés et écrites de collections particulières et publiques. Marques de marchands, de monteurs, et d'imprimeurs. Cachets de vente d'artistes décédés. Marques de graveurs apposées.... Amsterdam, 1921, cat. no. 874.

    Friedrich Lippmann Zeichnungen von Albrecht Dürer in Nachbildungen. Edited by Friedrich Winkler, 6, Berlin, 1927, cat. no. 682, p. 19.

    Hans Tietze, Erica Tietze-Conrat Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke Albrecht Dürers. 2 Vols., Augsburg (v.1), Basel and Leipzig (v.2), 1928-1938, cat. no. v.2: A392, fig. no. A 392, pp. 132, 266., ill.

    Eduard Flechsig Albrecht Dürer: Sein Leben unde Seine Künstlerische Entwicklung. Berlin, 1931, cat. no. LVI, 682, Vol.1, p. 427.

    Anzeigar des Germanischen Museums. 1932-1933, fig. no. 60, ill.

    Hans Tietze "Dürer in Amerika" Anzeiger des Germanischen Nationalmuseums. Nuremberg, 1932-1933, fig. no. 60, pp. 89-90., ill.

    Hans Tietze "Dürer in America" Art Bulletin. 15, no. 1, New York, March 1933, fig. no. 16, p. 260, ill.

    Franz Stadler Hans von Kulmbach. Vienna, 1936, p. 87.

    Friedrich Winkler Die Zeichnungen Albrecht Dürers. I-IV, Berlin, 1936, cat. no. Vol.1; 90, fig. no. 90, p. 66, ill.

    Walter Mehring European Drawings from the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (A Portfolio of Collotype Reproductions) [Vol. 1: Italian Drawings; Vol. 2: Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings; Vol. 3: Titled "New Series": Italian, Flemish, Dutch, German, Spanish, French, and British drawings]. 3 Vols., New York, 1942-1944, also N.S., no. 26., cat. no. 15 (Vol.2), fig. no. 15, ill.

    Erwin Panofsky Albrecht Dürer. 1-2, Princeton, 1943, cat. no. Vol. 2, no. 854, Vol. 1, p. 91.

    The Morgan Library & Museum Drawings and Prints by Albrecht Dürer. Mar 17-Apr 16 1955, p. 9.

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian Institution German Drawings. Masterpieces from Five Centuries Exhibition supplement. May 10-Jun 10, 1956, cat. no. 164.

    Lisa Oehler "Das 'geschleuderte' Dürer-Monogram" Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft. 17, Marburg, 1959, fig. no. 29, p. 182, ill.

    Jacob Bean 100 European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York Graphic Society, New York, 1964, cat. no. 80, fig. no. 80, ill.

    Charles W. Talbot, Jr., Gaillard F. Ravenel, Jay A. Levenson, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Dürer in America: His Graphic Work. 1971, cat. no. IV, p. 32.

    Wolfgang Hütt Albrecht Dürer 1471 bis 1528: Das gesamte graphische Werk. Munich, 1971, p. 113, ill.

    Walter L. Strauss "Dürer's 'St. Catherine' and 'St. Barbara'" Master Drawings. X, 1. 1972, fig. no. 15a, pp. 19-20, ill.

    Walter L. Strauss The Complete Drawings of Albrecht Dürer. New York, 1974, cat. no. Vol. II, p. 702, ill.

    National Gallery of Ireland Master European Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. Smithsonian Institution, 1983, p. 54.

    Albert J. Elen, Jacob Voorthuis Missing Old Master Drawings from the Franz Koenigs Collection Claimed by the State of the Netherlands. 1989, cat. no. under no. 149.

    Stijn Alsteens, Freyda Spira Dürer and Beyond: Central European Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400-1700. New York, 2012, p. ix, fig. 1, ill.



  • See also
90001741

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