Scribe Writing and the Author Presenting His Book
in or before 1870
Artist, French, active 1870/1887
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with black wash, heightened with white and gold, on gray prepared paper (grisaille)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (rounded top edge): 16.4 x 18.5 cm (6 7/16 x 7 5/16 in.)
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Accession
1946.21.5
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1950
Rosenwald Collection, An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions. NGA, 1950, no. 26, repro.
1953
Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953-1954, no. 80, repro.
1971
A Selection of X-Xv Century Medieval Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1971, no. 39 (as Anonymous [Bening School?], XVth century).
1972
Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 17, repro.
Bibliography
1981
Wieck, Roger S., OUD HOLLAND, 95:3 1981: 151-161, fig.1.
1992
Boon, Karel G. The Netherlandish and German Drawings of the XVth and XVIth Centuries of the Frits Lugt Collection, Volume II, Addenda & Indexes. Paris, 1992: 12, note 3.
2001
Hindman, Sandra, et al. Manuscript Illumination in the Modern Age. Evanston, IL, 2001: 140 -141, 253, and fig. 77.
Inscriptions
none
Markings
none
Wikidata ID
Q64571655