Madonna and Child

1515/1517

Hans Baldung Grien

Artist, German, 1484/1485 - 1545

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (cut to border): 37.9 x 26.1 cm (14 15/16 x 10 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1999.101.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 64

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Karl und Faber, November, 1953, no. 50; (Colnaghi, London). (N.G. Stogdon, England); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1959

  • Hans Baldung Grien, Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, 1959, no. H 21.

1991

  • German and Netherlandish Woodcuts of the 15th and 16th Centuries, N. G. Stogdon, Berlin and London, 1991-1992, no. 44.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001.

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

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.

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

Inscriptions

lower right in block: HBG (in monogram); by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Pass III 32264 / C. 37 / c 28925

Watermarks

raven's head (close to Briquet 2208 and Briquet Addenda 1968, 62-63)

Wikidata ID

Q75423961

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