Madonna in a Closed Garden

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 19.2 x 13.6 cm (7 9/16 x 5 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.562

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1120

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Wilhelm Eduard Drugulin [1825 - 1879], Leipzig; K. Wunsch, Vienna; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 14, repro.

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1960

  • Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 59, repro.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 167, repro.

1971

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

  • Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 6, repro.

1983

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

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 10, repro.

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. 167.

1990

  • Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 10.

1992

  • National Gallery of Art, Washington. Washington, D.C., 1992: 315, repro.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 28-29; fig.1.9, 28.

Wikidata ID

Q64953002

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