Sacred Monogram in a Sacred Heart on a Cloth Held by an Angel, c. 1480

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in red, green, yellow, gold,and orange

Dimensions

Overall: 8.2 x 6.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1793, State c

Accession Number

1943.3.802

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

at bottom, in block: Das hertz ist durch stohen worden mit / dem sper unsers heren ihesu cristi (This heart has been pierced with the spear [that pierced] our Lord Jesus Christ) [translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 261.]

Provenance

Anton W.M. Mensing; Sotheby's, December 16, 1936, lot 228.

Associated Names

Mensing, Anton W.M.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 259, repro.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 79, repro.

Bibliography

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965: Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.