Saint Maurice, c. 1480/1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving, hand-colored in green, yellow, blue, and light brown

Dimensions

sheet: 14 × 10.3 cm (5 1/2 × 4 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Passavant, no. 167, State unique

Accession Number

1950.1.5

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

in border around central image, in plate: Sanctus Mauricius Bidde Godt Vor Uns [followed by majiscule alphabet] (Saint Maurice, pray to God for us) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 253.]

Provenance

Marx Collection, Göttingen; Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Wartenburg, Yorck von, Count

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 253, repro.

Bibliography

1860: Passavant, Johann David. Le peintre-graveur, contenant l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, sur metalet au buring jusque vers la fin du XVI siecle .... 6 vols. Leipzig: Rudolph Weigel, 1860-1864.

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. 253.