Saint Eustace

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Artist Albrecht Dürer (German, May 21, 1471–April 6, 1528)

Title Saint Eustace (Der heilige Eustachius)

Date Ca. 1501

Medium Engraving on paper

Dimensions Image: 14 × 10 3/16 in. (35.6 × 25.9 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 3/16 in. (35.6 × 25.9 cm)

Credit Line William H. Conroy Memorial, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 73.26

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Moments before his conversion, Eustace kneels before the stag he was hunting, as the figure of Christ addresses him from a cross between its antlers. This extraordinary apparition is only one detail amid the much larger miracle of the Creation in Dürer’s largest engraving, which rivals the size of a small easel painting. The focus on creaturely life underscores this cosmic perspective, from the pack of hunting dogs and majestic steed in the foreground to the starling-shaped flock of birds in the farthest recesses of the background, whose flight assumes an uncanny sense of ornament.

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Publisher Albrecht Dürer (German, May 21, 1471–April 6, 1528)

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