The Death of the Virgin

1465/1470

Peter Maler

Artist, German, active second half 15th century

German 15th Century

Artist

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in light orange-red, green, yellow, and brown

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.7 × 27.4 cm (7 3/4 × 10 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 20.8 × 28.2 cm (8 3/16 × 11 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.519

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 708

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen. (Charles Stonehill, London); purchased 28 October 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift 1943 to the NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 26.

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1964

  • Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 105, repro.

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 11.

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.

1974

  • The Fable of the Sick Lion: A Fifteenth-Century Blockbook, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1974, no. 12, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 41, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 105.

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.41.

2013

  • Ainsworth, Maryan W. and Joshua P. Waterman. German Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2013: 214.

Wikidata ID

Q64962898

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