Sketch for a Glass Painting with St George, ca. 1496 – 1498

Title

Sketch for a Glass Painting with St George

Draughtsman

• Albrecht Dürer

Period Produced

• 15th century

School

• Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Physical Description

Pen and brown and grey ink over leadpoint and black chalk or charcoal, watercolour, on ribbed laid paper

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• watercolours
• lead-tin alloy
• chalk?
• coal?
• Vergé paper
• handmade paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• watercolour painting
• brush drawing
• lead-pencil drawing
• pencil drawing
• chalk drawing?
• charcoal drawing?

Geographic Reference

• Franconian

Production Reason

• torn disc
• presentation design?

Captions Added Later

Bezeichnet unten rechts (von fremder Hand): AD
Verso Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Work Catalogues

• Strauss I.472.1499/9
• Panofsky 1948.II.86.810
• Winkler I.135.197

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Acquisition

Acquired in 1890

Genre

• historical narration
• depiction of a saint
• animal depiction
• architecture

Main Motif

• Saint George
• man
• horseman
• woman
• animal
• window

Persons Shown

• George (saint)

Illustrated Passage

• Die Legenda aurea des Jacobus de Voragine, übersetzt von Richard Benz, Heidelberg 1984, 302

Primary

• 11Q71311 church-window, e.g. rose-window
• 11H(GEORGE)41 St. George and the dragon: dressed in armour and mounted on a (white) horse he brandishes his sword (his lance lies already broken on the ground); the princess nearby may be shown praying or fleeing
• 25I5 landscape with tower or castle

Secondary

• 48A98141 ornament ~ tracery
• 44B15122 princess