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German 15th Century

Allegory of the Meeting of Pope Paul II and Emperor Frederick III, c. 1470

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in green, red lake, yellow, tan, and orange

Dimensions

image: 41.3 x 29.2 cm (16 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.)

sheet: 38.4 x 28.8 cm (15 1/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1957

Accession Number

1943.3.9128

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

in block: [xylographic texts on banderoles and throughout composition to label picturial elements]

[see Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pp. 207-208.]

Provenance

(Heinrich Eisemann, Frankfurt); 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

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 22, repro.

1949: Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.

1956: Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 282, repro.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 15.

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

1973: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 8, repro.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 57, repro.

2018: Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

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.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 36; fig.1.18.

2000: Kleinschmidt, Harald. Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformations of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World. New York, 2000: 82-84, fig. 17.

2009: Baskins, Cristelle Louise, Adrian W.B. Randolph, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Alan Chong. The Triumph of Marriage; Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Boston, 2009, fig. 37.