The Ball
1500
Artist, German, active c. 1500
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.183
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.367, no. 17, 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
1946
Music in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no catalogue.
1953
Old Master Etchings and Engravings, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, 1953.
1955
installation to accompany two concerts titled "Love Songs of the Renaissance," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1955, no cat.
1956
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 152, repro.
1969
Festivals and Fairs: Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, no catalogue.
1979
Festivities: Ceremonies and Celebrations in Western Europe 1500-1790, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1979, no. 12, 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. 152.
1998
Howard, Skiles. The Politics of Courtly Dancing in Early Modern England. Amherst, MA, 1998: p. 17-18, fig. 10 (with variant name Matthaus Zasinger).
Watermarks
coat of arms of Cleves with lion (Lehrs 43; close to Briquet 1945)
Wikidata ID
Q64960434