Allegory of the Meeting of Pope Paul II and Emperor Frederick III
c. 1470
Artist
German 15th Century
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in green, red lake, yellow, tan, and orange
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 41.3 x 29.2 cm (16 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.)
sheet: 38.4 x 28.8 cm (15 1/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.9128
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 1957
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Heinrich Eisemann, Frankfurt); Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 22, repro.
1949
Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.
1956
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1965
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 15.
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 282, repro.
Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 15.
1971
A Selection of Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Book Prints from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 5, 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. 8, repro.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 57, repro.
2018
Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.
Bibliography
1926
Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.
1965
Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.
1996
Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 36; fig.1.18.
2000
Kleinschmidt, Harald. Understanding the Middle Ages: The Transformations of Ideas and Attitudes in the Medieval World. New York, 2000: 82-84, fig. 17.
2009
Baskins, Cristelle Louise, Adrian W.B. Randolph, Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Alan Chong. The Triumph of Marriage; Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance. Boston, 2009, fig. 37.
Inscriptions
in block: [xylographic texts on banderoles and throughout composition to label picturial elements]
[see Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, pp. 207-208.]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65018796