Currently not on view
Saint Eustace,
ca. 1501
Albrecht Dürer, 1471–1528; born and died Nuremberg, Germany; active Venice, Italy, and Nuremburg
x1949-1
In this, the largest of his engravings, Dürer illustrated the legend of Saint Eustace, a Roman soldier and hunter who encountered a stag bearing a small crucifix between his antlers. After the stag spoke to him in God’s voice—saying, "why pursuest thou me?"—Eustace converted to Christianity. Dürer rendered scenery and animals alike with such a profusion of detail that Eustace’s spiritual vision seems to encompass far more than the speaking stag. In achieving delicate nuances of texture and tone with his engraved line, Dürer deliberately rivaled the effects achieved by a painter’s brush.
Information
Title
Saint Eustace
Dates
ca. 1501
Maker
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
plate (sheet trimmed to plate): 35.5 × 26 cm (14 × 10 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund
Object Number
x1949-1
Place Made
Europe, Germany, Nuremburg
Inscription
Monogram in block, lower center: AD
Marks/Labels/Seals
Signed and dated in ink above castle and birds, center: P. Mariette 1662
Reference Numbers
Bartsch 57; Dodgson 32; Hollstein 60; Meder 20; Schoch 32
Type
Materials
Techniques
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Adam vom Bartsch, "Volume 7," Le peintre graveur ... (Vienne: J. V. Degen, 1803-05).
, no. 25, p. 47 -
Sylvester Rosa Koehler, A Chronological Catalogue of the Engravings, Dry-points and Etchings of Albert Dürer, as Exhibited at the Grolier Club (New York: The Grolier Club, 1897).
, no. 68, p. 58 - Arthur Mayger Hind, Albrecht Dürer: his engravings and woodcuts (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1911)., p. 12
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Campbell Dodgson, Albrecht Dürer (London: Medici Society, 1926).
, no .71 - Joseph Meder, Dürer-Katalog, ein handbuch über Albrecht Dürers stiche, radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren zustände, ausgaben und wasserzeichen (Vienna: Gilhofer & Rauschburg, 1932)., no. 26, p. 80
- Erwin Panofsky, Albrecht Dürer (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1945)., p. 304
- Erwin Panofsky, "Dürer's St. Eustace," Record of the Art Museum Vol. 9, no. 1 (1950): 2-10., p. 2
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F.W.H. Hollstein, “Dürer,” German engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, ca. 1400-1700 (Amsterdam: M. Hertzberger, 1962).
, no. 26, p. 22 - Charles Ilsley Minott, "Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works" Record of the Art Museum 30, no. 2 (1971): 7-27, pp. 21–22
- "Catalogue of the Exhibition" and "Plates," Record of the Art Musuem 30, no. 2 (1971): 29-60, p. 32, no. 30b, p. 51 (illus.)
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Rainer Schoch, Matthias Mende, and Anna Scherbaum, Albrecht Dürer: das druckgraphische Werk (München: Prestel, 2001).
, no. 68
