Saint Dominic

c. 1450

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in brown, vermilion, orange, blue, olive, and ochre

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.3 x 10.8 cm (10 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 29.1 x 14 cm (11 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
    overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1963.11.7

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1385, State a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1960; gift to the NGA, 1963.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 221, repro.

1968

  • L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 4, repro.

1973

  • Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1973-1974, no. 39.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 101a, repro.

2014

  • Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2014 - 2015, no. 43a.

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.

Inscriptions

at bottom, in block: Sanctus Dominicus

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65507033

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