The Stoning of Saint Stephen
c. 1470/1475
Artist, Netherlandish, active c. 1450 - active 1475
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 14 x 20.7 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.205
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.104, no. 71, State unique
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Monastery of Mattsee, Upper Austria, before 1912 [1]; (sale 8, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 1927, no. 230); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] This print was found in 1912 pasted on the verso of a page in an incunabulum preserved in the library of the Mattsee Cloister in Upper Austria.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 57.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 30, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 14.
1997
Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 4.
Bibliography
1908
Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
1967
Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 30.
Watermarks
ewer with Gothic f (Lehrs 14; close to Briquet 12,707)
Wikidata ID
Q64960470