The Nativity

1499

Mair von Landshut

Associated Names
Mair von Landshut

Artist, German, active c. 1485/1510

The image shows a woman kneeling and holding a child in the lower right portion. She wears a robe and a halo around her head and the child's head. The surroundings feature architectural details, a man observing from a building, an angel, and a cow peeking through a gate. In the upper portion, angels, a shining star, and smaller depictions of armored figures are visible within arches. The color scheme is muted blue and gray.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving heightened with white and yellow on green prepared paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.3 × 13.6 cm (8 × 5 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 20.9 × 13.6 cm (8 1/4 × 5 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9091

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.298, no. 5

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 162, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 November 1929, no. 427); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 119, repro.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 24-25, repro.

1957

  • The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957.

1962

  • Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 2.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 142, 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. 34.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 65.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 34, repro.

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

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. 142.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 50-51; fig.1.34, 50.

Wikidata ID

Q65023627

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