Christ before Pilate

c. 1480

Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.5 x 11.7 cm (6 1/2 x 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.41

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 24, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gerhard Güttler [1889-1966], Berlin (Lugt 2807b); (Oskar Stoessel); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 57, repro.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 59.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 48, repro.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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. 57.

Watermarks

letter D with Saint Anthony's Cross

Wikidata ID

Q64960229

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