Saint Catherine Leaning on a Sword
Medium
Pen and brown ink
Dimensions
10 13/16 x 5 1/4 in. (27.4 x 13.3 cm) (maximum dimensions)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Guy Wildenstein Gift and Ian Woodner Family Collection Fund, 2001
Accession Number
2001.168
Tags
About the Artist
Hans Baldung (called Hans Baldung Grien)|Hans Schäufelein · 1484–1545
Hans Baldung Grien (1484/85–1545), born in Schwäbisch Gmünd into an erudite family of jurists and physicians, forsook academia to pursue art. His early training around 1500 took place in the Upper Rhineland, likely Strasbourg, before he apprenticed under Albrecht Dürer in Nuremberg from 1503 to 1507. There, the young artist honed his skills in painting, printmaking, and stained glass, even managin...