Christ Blessing the Virgin

c. 1450

Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    diameter (sheet trimmed to plate mark): 8.7 cm (3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1952.8.4

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.086, no. 36, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

E.A. Seasongood [1876-1953], New York; (his sale, Parke-Benet, New York, November 1951, no. 261); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1951; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, 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. 4.

1998

  • Stogdon, Nicholas. Early Northern Engravings. England, 1998: under no. 5.

Wikidata ID

Q65362438

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