Albrecht Durer. Saint Eustace.

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                                                                      Saint Eustace.
                                                                                       
                                        l.c., [incised plate] "AD [artist's monogram]". Not dated.


                                        Albrecht Dürer  (1471-1528) was a painter, printmaker,

                                                  and theorist of the German Renaissance.

                           The subject illustrates the conversion of the pagan Eustace to Christianity

                                              while riding with his hounds through the forest.

                           Here he finds God in the form of a stag with a crucifix between its antlers.

                The print bears witness to Dürer's intense interest and skill in the depiction of nature.