The Marriage of the Virgin

c. 1490/1500

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

Israhel van Meckenem after Hans Holbein the Elder

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.5 × 18.2 cm (10 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.107

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.057, no. 53, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Czartoryski Collection, Poland; (sale C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 712); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1947

  • Six Centuries of Prints, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1947.

1958

  • Christmas Prints (gift of W.G. Russell Allen and from the Rosenwald Collection), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958-1959, no catalogue.

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 55.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 219, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 34, repro.

2023

  • Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem and his Late Medieval Print Shop, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023-2024.

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, 1934: Vol. 9, no. 53.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Blaricum: A.L. van Gendt B.V., 1986: Vol. XXIV, no. 53.

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. 219.

1990

  • Russell 1990, no. 34.

Inscriptions

upper center, on altar, in plate: IS / RAH / EL // VA / MECK / EN; in margin below image, in plate: Israhel. V. M.; verso, in graphite, by later hand, at upper right: B.33 34; in graphite, by later hand, at lower left: B. 33 G. 76; in graphite, by later hand, at lower right: 712

Markings

none

Watermarks

hand with flower (Lehrs 10)

Wikidata ID

Q64958467

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