Christ as the Man of Sorrows
c. 1500
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving, hand-colored in red, tan, violet, green and flesh; pasted into an initial "O" on an illuminated vellum sheet, torn from a book
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
diameter (engraving): 4.2 cm (1 5/8 in.)
sheet: 13.2 × 8.9 cm (5 3/16 × 3 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.752
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.233, no. 27
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979]; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 258, repro.
2002
Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque Hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts, The Baltimore Museum of Art; The Saint Louis Art Museum, 2002-2003, no. 4, repro.
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. 258.
2002
Dackerman, Susan. Painted Prints: Renaissance and Baroque Hand-Colored Engravings, Etchings, and Woodcuts. Exh. cat. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 2002-2003. University Park: 2002, no. 4.
Wikidata ID
Q64953318