Saint Peter and Saint John Healing a Cripple at the Gate of the Temple

1513

Albrecht Dürer

Associated Names
Albrecht Dürer

Artist, German, 1471 - 1528

This print shows multiple people in a detailed black-and-white composition. At the center of the image is an elderly man, with a long beard and short, thinning hair, dressed in a long white robe. He is standing, facing the left, reaching down towards an emaciated person sitting on the ground. Other individuals with various draped clothing and tall hats are around them. One person on the far left appears to be a soldier, and another holds a coin purse. The people are in front of a wall with a large column on the left and an opening on the right side.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to platemark): 11.6 × 7.4 cm (4 9/16 × 2 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3513

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meder, no. 18

  • Series Title

    The Engraved Passion


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Brentano-Birckenstock Collection, Vienna and Frankfurt (Lugt 345); Arthur Friederich Theodor Bohnenberger [1826-1893], Stuttgart (Lugt 68); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b and Lugt 1932d), 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1929

  • Engravings by Albrecht Durer from the collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald of Philadelphia, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1929, no. 2.

Bibliography

1932

  • Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.

2001

  • Schoch, Rainer, Mattihas Mende, and Anna Scherbaum. Albrecht Dürer: Das druckgraphische Werk. Munich, 2001: vol. 1: no. 60.

Inscriptions

in plate, top left: 1513; in plate, upper right, in window: AD [artist's monogram]; verso, lower right, in graphite by a later hand: 6 [upside down]; verso, bottom left, in graphite by a later hand: NR [?] 25146; verso, bottom center, in graphite by a later hand: B.18

Markings

none

Watermarks

none visible

Wikidata ID

Q18338468

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