Sanctus Bernhardinus

1450s

German 15th Century

Associated Names
Master of Balaam

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - 1475

German 15th Century

Artist

The image shows an elderly man standing in a robe, facing slightly to the right. He has a halo with rays around his head and holds a stick in his left hand and a radiant sun emblem with the letters "IHS" in his right hand. A flying dove carrying a cross hovers near his head. A smaller figure is kneeling in front of him and holds a key-like object. Several mitres are at his feet, and the background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20.2 x 14.8 cm (7 15/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 28.2 x 20.2 cm (11 1/8 x 7 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.25.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. I, no. 11, State (as "Master of 1462")

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich Wilhelm Roloff, Berlin, 1736. Bibliothek, Marienstifts-Gymnasium, Stettin, after 1736. Private collection; (Jörn Guenther, Hamburg); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2004

  • Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2004 - 2005

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.

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

upper right in plate: Sanctus / bernhardus; by 15th century hand, across top of page:
…
…Alcuinus poeta magister . . .
…Haec divina dei placeat scriptura. Precamur.//Sensibus atque oculis lector honeste tuis//Spiritus hanc celi- dictavit ab arce//In qua vera fides fulget et alma salus.
…
…[see also: commentary]
…
…

Watermarks

sun with a face (similar to Briquet 13.921)

Wikidata ID

Q76335883

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