The Lovers Surprised by Death, 1510

Not on View

Medium

chiaroscuro woodcut printed from 3 blocks: black line block and 2 tone blocks in shades of red on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 21.3 x 15.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 724, State ii/iv

Accession Number

1948.11.15

Artists / Makers

Hans Burgkmair I (artist) German, 1473 - 1531

Jost de Negker (artist) Flemish, 1485 - 1544

Image Use

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Provenance

Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966, L2770], Vienna;[1] (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna); sold 1947 to (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); sold 3 November 1947 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1948 to NGA.

[1]This print is inventory no. 804 of the Rudolf Gutmann collection confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938. The collection was stored at the Zentraldepot in Vienna and transferred to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. The print was restituted to the Viennese dealer Christian Nebehay acting on Gutmann’s behalf in August 1947 (Restitution decision in Zl. 4716/47; export license in Zl 4694/47 dated 11 August 1947, all Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Gutmann, Rudolf
Lanna, Adalbert von, Baron
Nebehay, Christian
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Exhibition History

1950: Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 34, repro.

1962: Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 9, repro.

1968: Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

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. 53.

1974: Europe in Torment: 1450-1550, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1974, no. 42, repro.

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 132, repro.

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 30, repro. fig. 22.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1990: Russell 1990, cat.no.132.

2012: Kennicott, Philip. "The Passion of the Renaissance, via Germany." Washington Post 135, no. 300 (September 30, 2012): E5.