BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans St. Bartolomew. 1519 Woodcut, 21,5 x 13,4 cm, laid paper, monogrammed bottom right. Stuck by corners under passe-partout. Good impression. St Bartholomew as full-length figure in a large cloak, holding a flaying knife in his left hand, with a white halo emitting rays across the upper half of the background only. Part of a set of 13 prints: "Christ and the Apostles". Probably 17th-c. impression. Ref. German Hollstein III:85. - Bartsch VII:309. - Matthias Mende, "Hans Baldung Grien. Das graphische Werk", Unterschneidheim 1978, no.51.