The Lovers Surprised by Death

1510

Hans Burgkmair I

Artist, German, 1473 - 1531

Jost de Negker

Artist, Flemish, 1485 - 1544

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chiaroscuro woodcut printed from 3 blocks: black line block and 2 tone blocks in shades of red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 21.3 x 15.2 cm (8 3/8 x 6 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 724, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966, L2770], Vienna;[1] (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna); sold 1947 to (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); sold 3 November 1947 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1948 to NGA.
[1]This print is inventory no. 804 of the Rudolf Gutmann collection confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938. The collection was stored at the Zentraldepot in Vienna and transferred to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. The print was restituted to the Viennese dealer Christian Nebehay acting on Gutmann’s behalf in August 1947 (Restitution decision in Zl. 4716/47; export license in Zl 4694/47 dated 11 August 1947, all Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 34, repro.

1962

  • Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 9, repro.

1968

  • Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

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. 53.

1974

  • Europe in Torment: 1450-1550, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, 1974, no. 42, repro.

1977

  • Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 84.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 1983.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 132, repro.

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 30, repro. fig. 22.

Bibliography

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

1990

  • Russell 1990, cat.no.132.

2012

  • Kennicott, Philip. "The Passion of the Renaissance, via Germany." Washington Post 135, no. 300 (September 30, 2012): E5.

Wikidata ID

Q65072919

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