, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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St. Anthony, 1519
Albrecht Dürer
German, 1471
- 1528
engraving on laid paper
10.2 x 14.6 cm; plate: 10 x 14.3 cm
Purchased 1951
National Gallery of Canada (no. 5906)
St. Anthony was a hermetic monk who lived in third-century Egypt. His habit, cowl, and bare feet identify him as the founder of the monastic system. From the twelfth century, Antonite monks attached a bell to their cross when collecting alms for hospitals. In Dürer’s print, the saint reads by a riverbank, the line of his studious figure echoing the triangular massing of the cityscape in the distance. The setting of the print suggests that as a contemplative aesthete, St. Anthony remains indifferent to the distractions of city life.
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