The Embrace
1503
Artist, German, active c. 1500
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 15.8 × 11.7 cm (6 1/4 × 4 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.182
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.365, no. 16, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(von Passavant-Gontard sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 15 May 1929, no. 1053); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 25.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 12.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 149, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 31.
1990
Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 126, repro.
2000
Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.
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. 149.
Wikidata ID
Q64960433