Saint Anthony

c. 1490/1500

Master FVB

Associated Names
Master FVB

Artist, Flemish, active c. 1480/1500

The image shows a bearded man standing upright. He is holding a book in his left hand and a staff in his right. He has a long beard, deep-set eyes, and wears a hat that covers his head and long, wavy hair. He is dressed in a robe with a cross emblem on the shoulder and leather shoes. A pig is positioned by his left side. The background is plain, with a textured pattern on the floor, framed by a border.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 16.6 x 9.6 cm (6 9/16 x 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.204

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.145, no. 39

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 162, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 November 1929, no. 134); (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. 21.

1933

  • A Century of Progress, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1933, no. 28.

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 16.

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 111.

1949

  • Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 127, repro.

1971

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 47, 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. 127.

Wikidata ID

Q64960417

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