Madonna and Child Seated on a Grassy Bank with Angels

1480/1490

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in dark brown, hand-colored in light red lake, dark blue, green, brown, gold, and orange with tarnished silver leaf on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 8.9 x 5.9 cm (3 1/2 x 2 5/16 in.)
    sheet: 11 x 7.9 cm (4 5/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.563

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1123

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Baron Adalbert von Lanna [1836-1909], Prague, Bohemia (Lugt 2773); Albertina, Vienna; (Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Cat. 20 (1929) no.7); purchased 1 February 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 168, 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. 168.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64953003

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