The Nativity
1499
Artist, German, active c. 1485/1510

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving heightened with white and yellow on green prepared paper
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Credit Line
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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
1943.3.9091
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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