St. George and the Dragon

Cleveland Museum of Art

St. George and the Dragon

Wolfgang HuberLinkedCulture matchlcp-b566e168cf6f

Date
1520
Medium
woodcut
Culture
Austria
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
146164

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Landscape draftsman Wolfgang Huber made only a few prints. In this woodcut, he developed ideas from his drawings, such as the radiating light, agitated clouds, and soaring trees. Here, he applied these ideas to the story of Saint George slaying the dragon. Huber rendered the figures with the same short marks as the trees and rocks surrounding them so that they appear to blend into the landscape. Despite written legends placing Saint George’s slaying of the dragon in North Africa, this scene takes place in a Northern European forest.

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Credit line
Gift of Members of The Print Club of Cleveland through fiftieth anniversary donations
Provenance
?–1970: (P&D Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London, England), given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | May 13, 1971–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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