Live Auction 7781Old Master Prints
Christie’s roundel
Lot 16

Albrecht Dürer

Saint George on Horseback (B. 54; M., Holl. 56; S.M.S. 41)

Closed8 December 2009

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GBP 8,750

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Albrecht Dürer
Saint George on Horseback (B. 54; M., Holl. 56; S.M.S. 41)
engraving, 1505/08, without watermark, a very good Meder b impression, with the short scratch above the dragon's head, the helmet and halo slightly slipped in the printing, remargined, a tiny skinned area at the lower left corner verso, otherwise in good condition
P. 108 x 84 mm., S. 111 x 87 mm.

H. S. Theobald (b. 1847), London (L. 1375).

Specialist note

Saint George was a Roman soldier and early Christian martyr. His identification as dragon slayer is the result of medieval hagiography and was firmly established by Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda Aurea. He is the model of the Christian soldier and was particularly revered during the Crusades. Within Dürer's printed work, he is, of course, a precursor to the knight in Knight, Death and the Devil (lot 21).