Saint Andrew

c. 1470/1480

Israhel van Meckenem after Master E.S.

Associated Names
Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

Master E.S.

Artist After, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

The image shows a man standing with a slight tilt in his posture, holding an X-shaped object. He has long hair and a beard, a prominent nose, and appears slightly aged. He wears a long robe, with the fabric draping in folds, and he is barefoot on a tiled floor. A halo adorns his head, and he wears a bracelet on his wrist. The background is a plain, etched surface, with an inscription reading "Andreas" to the left.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15.7 × 9 cm (6 3/16 × 3 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 29.2 × 19.2 cm (11 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.121

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.235, no. 270, State only

  • Series Title

    Series of the Twelve Apostles [Lehrs 269-279]

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Trivulzio Collection, Milan [1]; (purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi Co., London, 1929); (Kennedy and Co., New York, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] This is one of ten prints in a series of the Twelve Apostles by Israhel van Meckenem that was found bound into the Codex Trivulziana, a medieval prayer book in the Trivulzio Library, Milan. The codex was sold to P. & D. Colnaghi in 1929 and the engravings were subsequently removed.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 162, 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. 162.

Inscriptions

at upper left, in plate: Andreas; verso, lower left, in graphite by later hand: a74004

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64958485

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