Saint Veronica with the Sudarium

c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in yellow, blue, red, green and gold on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 8.5 × 7.5 cm (3 3/8 × 2 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 14.1 × 8.7 cm (5 9/16 × 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.756

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. *, no. 1724, State c

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 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

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 249, 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.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64953330

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