Memento Mori

c. 1500/1502

Master MZ

Artist, German, active c. 1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 18 × 12.9 cm (7 1/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.186

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 8, p.373, no. 20, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Johann Peter Maria Cerroni [1753-1826], Brunn (Lugt 1432); Dr. Christian David Ginsburg [1831-1914], Palmer's Green, England (Lugt 1145); (sale 42, Hollstein und Puppel, Berlin, 6 December 1929, no. 931); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; 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. 144, repro.

1975

  • Images of Love and Death in Late Medieval and Renaissance Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, 1975-1976, no. 45, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 141, 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. 144.

1990

  • Russell 1990, no. 141.

Wikidata ID

Q64960439

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