The Virgin and Child with Saint Conrad and Saint Pelagius, 1504

Not on View

Medium

hand-colored woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.4 × 14.1 cm (9 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)
mount: 31 × 26.2 cm (12 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the Gift of Ann and Matthew Nimetz

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. 37

Accession Number

2012.143.1

Artists / Makers

Jörg Breu the Elder (artist) German, c. 1475 - 1537

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
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Inscription

in image, at lower right: [artist's monogram]; below image at lower left, in block: S. Conradus; below image at lower right, in block: S. Pelagius; by later hand, within image just below coat of arms in black ink: RM.B; on mount at lower left, in black ink by later hand: [artist's monogram] Hans Burkmeyer. 1504; on mount at lower right, in black ink by later hand: Eigenthum R. Münger Bern; on mount at bottom: [traces of illegible, erased graphite inscription by a later hand]; verso of mount, at center in black ink: EX-LIBRIS R.M.-B.; verso of mount, at upper left: [illegible graphite inscription by a later hand]

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Rudolf Münger, Bern (not in Lugt); (Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

Münger, Rudolf
Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

Exhibition History

2022: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger: no. 12.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700 (Jörg Breu the Elder and the Younger). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 2008, no. 37.