The Jack of Parrots
c. 1500
Artist, German, active c. 1490/1510
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 6.9 × 6.7 cm (2 11/16 × 2 5/8 in.)
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Accession
1948.11.138
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.313, no. 74, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The British Museum, duplicate (Lugt 300 and 305); Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966, L2770], Vienna;[1] (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna); sold to (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); sold 6 February 1948 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1948 to NGA.
[1]This print is inventory no. 828 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
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 138, repro.
2016
The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430-1540, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, no. 6, repro. (fig. 47).
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. 138.
Wikidata ID
Q65081255