Christ in the Wilderness Served by Angels, c. 1480/1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate): 30 × 22.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 6, p.27, no. 5, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1950.17.207

Artists / Makers

Master i.e. (artist) German, active c. 1480/1500

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left, in plate: M + S [false monogram of Martin Schongauer]

Provenance

Robert Scholtz [1834-1912], Budapest; (his sale, H.G. Gutekunst, Stuttgart, May 1911, no. 805); Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966], Vienna (Lugt 2770) [1]; (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1950; gift to NGA, 1950.

[1] Although Rudolph Gutmann’s collection was seized in 1938 and restituted to him almost in its entirety, this particular work does not seem to appear in the catalogue of the seized collection or among the seizure cards created for the Zentraldepot, Vienna. This print might have entered the market before 1938.

Associated Names

Gutmann, Rudolf
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Scholtz, Robert

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 116, repro.

1971: Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 19, 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. 29, repro.

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. 116.