St. Jerome in Penitence, ca. 1497

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528

Engraving

  • Plate: 12 1/4 × 8 7/8 inches (31.1 × 22.5 cm) Sheet: 12 1/4 × 8 7/8 inches (31.1 × 22.5 cm)

Gift of the Kiefer Family in memory of Madeline and John Kiefer

2018.52

Signed in plate, lower center: AD [artist's mark]

Watermark at top edge: small one-handled pot [Briquet 12494] Collector's stamps, verso lower right corner, in gray ink: W or M [in circle]; stamp, verso, in gray ink, lower left corner: M [in circle]

Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: 95975 [struck through]; two faded and illegible cursive inscriptions Inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: 37001

Madeline Sadie Kiefer [1924-2017] and John Kiefer [died 2002] (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), by inheritence to Matthew J. Kiefer

2018-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in Penitence, ca. 1497, engraving. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Kiefer Family in memory of Madeline and John Kiefer, 2018.52.