The New Church of the Beautiful Virgin at Regensburg

c. 1520

Michael Ostendorfer

Artist, German, c. 1490 - 1559

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut printed from three blocks and letterpress on two sheets of laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 64.8 x 53.5 cm (25 1/2 x 21 1/16 in.)
    sheet: 72 x 63.2 cm (28 3/8 x 24 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2006.101.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 7


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collector J.N. (or G.N.) (not in Lugt); (C.G. Boerner, LLC, New York); purchased 2006 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • The Baroque Woodcut, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2007 - 2008

Bibliography

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

letterpress text, upper left: Anno incarnationis... / ...lecifate non cessat; letterpress text, upper right: Als man nach der gepurdt Christi... / ...herzlich erfreyent

Watermarks

Coat of arms with AV

Wikidata ID

Q76348797


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