Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 26.1 x 17.2 cm (10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.34
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 16, State i/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Joseph Otto Entres [1804-1870], Munich (Lugt 2941); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 85, repro.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 8.
1946
Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Auburn, NY, 1946.
1949
Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.
1953
Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.
1955
Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.
1965
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965, no. 22.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 41, repro.
1968
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 1968-1969, no catalogue.
1971
Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 27, repro.
1975
The Inspired Copy: Artists Look at Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975, no. 10A, repro.
1983
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.
1995
Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.
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
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. 41.
Watermarks
bull's head with star (close to Lehrs 44, 45)
Wikidata ID
Q64960214