Albrecht Dürer
Saint Eustace
c. 1501
prints & drawings
This is the largest of all Dürer’s engravings. The print is the result of a careful study of nature. The landscape and the animals are impressively depicted. The scene shows the conversion of Eustace, an officer in the army of Emperor Trajan, at the moment when he saw a deer with a crucifix in its antlers. Saint Eustace is one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, a group of saints who could be called upon in times of disasters or illness.
