The Madonna with the Clock

c. 1490

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

Israhel van Meckenem

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 11.1 × 10.5 cm (4 3/8 × 4 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.118

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.191, no. 191, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; 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. 211, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.

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. 191.

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. 191.

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. 211.

Inscriptions

upper center, in plate: I V M [artist's monogram]; in frame around central image, in plate: Ave potentissima et humilissima virgo Maria. Ave sapientissima et humilissima virgo Maria. Ave benignissima et humilissima virgo Maria. Gratia plena dominus tecum. (Hail most powerful and humblest Virgin Mary. Hail most wise and humblest Virgin Mary. Hail sweetest and humblest Virgin Mary. Full of grace, the Lord is with thee. [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 211.]; verso, in graphite, by a later hand, lower left: B. 45[?] / G. 176 / Mc 27293; in graphite, by a later hand, lower right: 3 [encircled] / C2286

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64958364

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