The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, 1509

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 28.7 × 19.1 cm (11 5/16 × 7 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 7

Accession Number

1943.3.2873

Artists / Makers

Lucas Cranach the Elder (artist) German, 1472 - 1553

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in block, at lower right, on plaque: L C / 1509; verso: at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: 344; at bottom right, in brown ink, in later hand: 41

Provenance

(sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 344); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1957: The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.

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