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Inscription

in image, in block at lower right: HGB [artist's monogram]; on verso, in graphite at lower left: L Rsw; on verso, in black ink at lower left: Hans Baldung Grien / B. No. 5. / J.A. Boerner [collector's signature (Lugt 269)] / srix

Marks and Labels

on verso, in black ink: Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg (Lugt 2669)

Provenance

Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie; Johann Andreas Boerner [1785-1862], Nuremberg; (his sale, Rudolph Weigel, Leipzig, 1864, German school sale, no. 204); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1949.

Exhibition History

1950
Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 31, repro.
1959
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 1959, no catalogue.
1968
The Golden Age of the Woodcut: 1450-1550, Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1968, no. 69.
1969
Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969.
1981
Hans Baldung Grien Prints and Drawings, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1981, not in catalogue.
2019
Hans Baldung Grien, Large State Exhibition of Baden-Wurttemberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 2019 - 2020, no. 143.

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 Hertzberger

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