The Rest on the Flight into Egypt at a Fountain
c. 1512/1515
Artist, German, 1480 or before - 1538

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 23 x 17.6 cm (9 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.376
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. w. 47
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Gerhard Güttler [1889 - 1966], Złoty Stok, Berlin, and Bad Tölz (Lugt 2807b); (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 39); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1960
Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 8.
1998
Fountains: Splash and Spectacle, Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 1998, no. 95.
Bibliography
1963
Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.
1996
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. w. 47.
Inscriptions
recto: in block, at lower center: artist's monogram; verso: at center, in black ink, in later hand: 204; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: 39; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: B59
Markings
verso: Gerhart Güttler (Lugt 2807b)
Wikidata ID
Q64952509