Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian

c. 1450/1460

Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 14.7 × 10.7 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.193

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.227, no. 157, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Hermann Weber [1817-1854], Bonn; (his sale, Rudolph Weigel, Liepzig, 1855, no. 6); Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie, and by descent to his heirs; (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2-3 May 1932, no. 58); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 67.

1953

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1954

  • Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 43.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 6, repro.

  • Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 31, repro.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 16.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 5, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999.

1999

  • The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal, A Fifteenth-Century View of Life, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999.

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. 6.

1994

  • Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550 New Haven and London, 1994: fig. 20.

Wikidata ID

Q64960402

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