St Eustace by Albrecht Durer - Stockillustratie

Vintage engraving of St Eustace by Albrecht Durer. The legend of St Eustace is narrated in the Legenda aurea and is freely adapted in Dürer's picture. The Roman officer Placidus was converted to Christianity by a vision of a stag who spoke with the voice of Christ and carried a crucifix in its antlers, and he then took the name of Eustace. Here, the scene is taking place in the middle of a forest landscape, next to a pond.