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Saint Catherine

Hans Baldung (Grien) (German, 1484 or 1485–1545)
Formerly attributed to: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
About 1505–07

Medium/Technique Woodcut
Dimensions Image: 23.8 x 16.1 cm (9 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund
Accession NumberP199
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch (relief) app. 025 (attributed to Dürer); Geisberg 73; Hollstein 135; Mende 12; Yale 5
Signed Not signed
Marks Watermark [?]; recto, upper right: [Dürer monogram]; verso, collector's stamp in red: H.F.S. [Henry F. Sewall; Lugt 1309]; purple Parker Collection MFA stamp with accession number in ink: 199. [Lugt 1870]; in graphite: 35335; £ 11[??]; B. 25; [Z followed by an odd shape]
ProvenanceHenry Foster Sewall (b. 1816 - d. 1896; Lugt 1309), New York; 1896, by inheritance to his son, Charles Sewall (b. 1848 - d. 1898); 1897, sold by Charles Sewall to the MFA [see note 1]. (Acquisition Date: October 21, 1897)

NOTE:

[1] Henry F. Sewall offered his collection to the MFA for purchase in 1888. That purchase was finalized and executed in 1897, one year after his death.