Paradise with Christ in the Lap of Abraham

c. 1239

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera and gold leaf on vellum

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.4 x 15.7 cm (8 13/16 x 6 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1946.21.11

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    NGA Miniatures 1975, no. 33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

R. Forrer (Lugt Supp.941a)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1944

  • Illuminations from Medieval Manuscripts, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA, 1944.

1946

  • New Acquisitions in the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1946, no cat.

1947

  • 46th Annual Exhibition of Miniatures, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1947.

1949

  • Illuminated Books of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, organized by the Waters Art Gallery at the Baltimore Museum of Art, 1949, no. 33, repro.

1950

  • Books of the Middle Ages, Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology, Toronto, 1950.

1953

  • Mediaeval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts, Los Angeles County Museum, 1953-1954, no.23.

1954

  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR, 1954.

1955

  • Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1955, no cat.

1956

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1956, no cat.

1957

  • Illuminated Manuscript Pages from the Rosenwald Collection, and North Italian Engravings from the Rosenwald Collection and Gifts from W.G. Russell Allen, NGA, 1957-1958, no cat.

1960

  • Manuscript Illuminations, XIIth-XVth Century, from the Rosenwald Collection, NGA, 1960-1961, no cat.

1961

  • Significant Forms: The Changing Character of Western Art, Addison Gallery of Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, 1961, no cat.

1963

  • Pages from Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from the Xth to the early XVIth centuries, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley, 1963, no. 8, repro.

1965

  • Rosenwald Miniatures, NGA, 1965, no cat.

1970

  • The Year 1200, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, 1970, no. 270, 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. 17, repro.

1972

  • Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX, 1972.

  • Mediaeval Manuscripts from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Notre Dame, 1972, no. 3.

1975

  • Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, no. 33, repro.

  • Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1975, no. 33, repro.

1977

  • Die Zeit der Staufer: Geschichte - Kunst - Kultur, Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, 1977, no. 768, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 45, repro.

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 1, repro.

2009

  • Heaven on Earth: Manuscript Illuminations from the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 2009, no.cat.

Bibliography

1975

  • National Gallery of Art. Medieval and Renaissance Miniatures from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1975: no. 33.

1982

  • Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 45.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 658, no. 1033, color repro.

1990

  • Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 1.

2016

  • National Gallery of Art. Highlights from the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, 2016: 34, repro.

Inscriptions

on verso late thirteenth-century copy of a letter from Pope Gregory IX to Elizabeth of Thuringia

Wikidata ID

Q64571820

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