Saint Agnes, c. 1450

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in orange-tan, green, light blue, gray, carmine, and gold

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1180

Accession Number

1943.3.573

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Liepzig; (sale, C. G.Boerner, Sorgfaltig); William Bell Scott, London; Paul Joseph Sachs [1878-1965], Cambridge; purchased 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Sachs, Paul Joseph
Scott, William Bell
Weigel, Theodor Oswald

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 5, repro.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 177, repro.

1965: Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 4.

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. 177.