Madonna in a Wreath of Roses

1490/1500

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

This is a painting of a religious scene with a floral border. The central figure is in the foreground wearing a red and green robe and a halo. Surrounding this figure are angelic beings with large wings and red and green garments. Above the scene, another figure reclines on a cloud holding two scepters. The background features a mountainous landscape to the left and a distant castle or town to the right. The entire composition is enclosed by a border of roses. The image uses a palette of earthy tones with touches of red and green. This style resembles a medieval illumination or woodcut, possibly inspired by Northern European artists like Albrecht Dürer.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, and gray-yellow

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    diameter (trimmed within plate mark): 17.8 cm (7 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.553

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1012, State a

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Wilhelm Schreiber. R. von Seydlitz. C.A. de Bourlet. Jacques Rosenthal; purchased from (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); acquired 29 July 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 36, repro.

1957

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

1959

  • Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 156, repro.

1968

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

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. 8.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965: no. 156.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 28-29; fig.1.10, 28.

1998

  • Olson, Roberta J. M. "The Rosary and Its Iconography, Part I: Background for Devotional Tondi," Arte Cristiana LXXXVI (July-August 1998): 272, fig. 6.

Wikidata ID

Q64952990

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