The Birth of the Virgin
c. 1490/1500
Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate): 26.7 × 18.3 cm (10 1/2 × 7 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.106
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.054, no. 51, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
William Esdaile [1758-1837], London (Lugt 2617); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1949
Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 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.
1958
Life of Christ, Isaac Delgado Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 1958-1959, no catalogue.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 217, repro.
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. 217.
Watermarks
Gothic P with flower (close to Lehrs 24)
Wikidata ID
Q64958466