Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia

c. 1475/1480

Israhel van Meckenem

Associated Names
Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

The image shows a woman and a man. The woman stands upright, with her head slightly tilted to the side and a serene expression. She wears an elaborate headdress and a long, detailed garment. The man kneels beside her, adjusting his cap. The woman holds a crown in one hand and there is another crown near her feet. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 16.1 × 11 cm (6 5/16 × 4 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.146

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.318, no. 398, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 181, repro.

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. 398, i/ii.

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. 398, i/ii.

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. 181.

Inscriptions

lower center, in plate: I.M. [artist's monogram]; verso, in graphite, by a later hand, lower right: B.127. G.331 I

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64958407

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