The Trinity

c. 1465

Master of the Berlin Passion

Associated Names
Master of the Berlin Passion

Artist, German, active c. 1450/1470

This is a drawing of a scene that includes a divine figure with a crown and a flowing robe interacting with a smaller human figure. The human figure appears to be suffering and has wounds on the body. To the left is a globe with a cross, and to the right is a wooden post wrapped with rope. Above the figures is an illuminated bird with outstretched wings. The background features a simple wall and floor created with lines. The drawing uses lines and shading to create depth and expressions, similar to religious illustrations in medieval print works.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.5 × 6.6 cm (3 3/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 10.3 × 8 cm (4 1/16 × 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1946.21.136

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 3, p.114, no. 77, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1946; gift to NGA, 1946.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 22, 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.

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. 22.

Inscriptions

at top, in banderole, in plate: ppo filio non peperci (I have not spared my own son)

Wikidata ID

Q65081217

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