Das buch granatapfel im latin genant Malogranatus..

1510

Hans Burgkmair I and Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (author)

Associated Names
Hans Burgkmair I

Artist, German, 1473 - 1531

Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg

Artist, German, 1445 - 1510

The image displays a man working with a hog suspended by its hind legs. A table to the left holds items such as a large bowl, two lidded pots, and vegetables. A window with crisscrossed panes lets in light behind the man. The color palette is monochromatic with shades of beige and black. Objects and the man are positioned around a table in front of the viewer, with the man leaning towards the hog against the right wall.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 6 woodcut illustrations and blindstamped vellum backed wooden boards

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

  • Dimensions

    page size: 27 x 19.4 cm (10 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
    overall size (volume closed): 28 x 20.4 cm (11 x 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2000.57.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Fürstenberg Library, Donaueschingen (not in Lugt; see Lugt 995); (Bernard Shapero, London); purchased 2000 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; 2012, no. 52 (only shown at NGA venue).

Bibliography

2000

  • Bernard J. Shapero Rare Books. A Collection of Books from the Fürstenberg Library at Donaueschingen, 16th - 19th Century. London, 2000: no. 36.

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