The Adoration of the Magi

c. 1460/1465

Master E.S.

Associated Names
Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

The image shows a Nativity scene with Mary holding baby Jesus. She is surrounded by three figures, likely the Magi, one kneeling and two standing. Another figure is standing to the side. The background includes an architectural structure with hills in the distance.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 12.8 × 8.1 cm (5 1/16 × 3 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.5.482

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.072, no. 25, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Maltzan Collection, Militisch; (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, 1950, no. 18, repro.

1953

  • Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no cat.

1956

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1956, no cat.

1957

  • The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 11, repro.

  • Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 51, repro.

1968

  • Fifteenth Century German Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, Charles L. Tutt Library, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 1968.

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. 12.

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. 11.

Wikidata ID

Q65081152

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