The Stoning of Saint Stephen, c. 1470/1475

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 14 x 20.7 cm (5 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.104, no. 71, State unique

Accession Number

1943.3.205

Artists / Makers

Master with the Banderoles (artist) Netherlandish, active c. 1450 - active 1475

Israhel van Meckenem (artist after) German, c. 1445 - 1503

Image Use

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Provenance

Monastery of Mattsee, Upper Austria, before 1912 [1]; (sale 8, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 1927, no. 230); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] This print was found in 1912 pasted on the verso of a page in an incunabulum preserved in the library of the Mattsee Cloister in Upper Austria.

Associated Names

Monastery of Mattsee
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 57.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 30, repro.

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. 14.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 4.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 30.