print
- Museum number
- 1837,0408.79
- Description
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Madonna with Saint George (Madonna and Child with Saints John the Baptist, Geminian, Peter Martyr and George); the Virgin Mary holding a semi-nude Child on her lap, seated on a high throne; around her saints and putti; St George, front right, resting a foot on the head of a dragon; John the Baptist, left, pointing and the Virgin and Child; putti playing in the foreground; in an elaborately decorated architectural setting; landscape visible throught the lunette behind the figures
Woodcut
- Dimensions
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Height: 534 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 389 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Print after Correggio's Madonna with St George, executed for the Confraternita di S. Pietro Martire in Modena, later owned by the Este family; sold to Augustus III of Saxony in 1745-6; now in the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden [gal. n. 153] See Gould, 1976, p. 206-207.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Pasted on cardboard, bottom corners repaired.
- Acquisition date
- 1837
- Acquisition notes
- From Richard Ford's collection of prints after Correggio (1837,0408.14 to 669), purchased from him through Colnaghi's, for £250.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1837,0408.79
