Christ on the Mount of Olives, c. 1450/1460

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in red-brown lake, gray, yellow, rose, olive, and green

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 184, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.463

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Barfusserkloster, Freiburg and Switzerland. (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased 2 May 1940 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L.1760b and L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 33, repro.

1967: Master Prints on Biblical Themes, Sloan Galleries at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN, 1967, no cat.

1979: Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 15.

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 9, 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. 33.

1990: Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 9.

1998: Hamburger, Jeffrey F. The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. New York, 1998: 258, fig. 5.13.