Saint George and the Dragon

Artist Jörg Breu the Elder (?) b. 1475/1480, Augsburg; d. 1537, Augsburg

Datecirca 1520

MediumOil on pine panel

Dimensionsoverall: 13 7/8 × 13 3/4in. (35.2 × 34.9cm)
frame: 21 5/8 × 21 5/8 × 2 3/4in. (54.9 × 54.9 × 7cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.64

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On view

ProvenanceKnoedler and Co., New York (as early as 1934); Julius Loeb, New York (as early as 1938 to 1947, when sold at Parke-Bernet’s, May 8, no. 18); Frederic A. Stern, New York, 1950; Samuel H. Kress collection; given to NCMA 1960.
Published ReferencesCharles Kuhn, Catalogue of German Paintings of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in American Collections (Cambridge, 1936), cat. no. 276.

"The Gothic North," (exhibition catalogue) in Annual Report: Fall Bulletin 20, no. 1 (Columbus, OH: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, 1949), cat. no. 6 (as lent by Frederic A. Stern, Inc.).

Holbein and His Contemporaries (exhibition catalogue) (Indianapolis: John Herron Art Museum, 1950), cat. no. 9.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art 1960), 130, illus. fig. 131.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 58.

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 34, illus. (b-w) 35.

Colin Eisler, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools Excluding Italian (Oxford, 1977), 29, illus. fig. 27.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 43.Exhibition HistoryAmsterdam, Rijksmuseum, "Tentoonstelling van Oude Kunst," July-September, 1936, cat. no. 19.

Cambridge, MA, Fogg Museum of Art, "The Horse: Its Significance in Art," April 20-May 21, 1938, cat. no. 3.

Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, "Loan Exhibition of German Paintings," 1949, cat. no. 1.

Columbus, OH, Columbus Gallery of Art, "The Gothic North," 1949, cat. no. 6.

Indianapolis, IN, John Herron Art Museum, "Holbein and His Contemporaries," October 22-December 24, 1950, cat. no. 9.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 34, illus. (b-w) 35.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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