The Man of Sorrows and His Mother

c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in rose, blue, lilac, vermilion, mustard yellow, white, brown, and silver on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 9.6 x 6.8 cm (3 3/4 x 2 11/16 in.)
    sheet: 13.6 x 9.7 cm (5 3/8 x 3 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.535

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 913, State d


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 132, 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. 132.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64952970


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