Saint Agnes
c. 1450
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in orange-tan, green, light blue, gray, carmine, and gold
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Credit Line
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Accession
1943.3.573
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 1180
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Liepzig; (sale, C. G.Boerner, Sorgfaltig); William Bell Scott, London; Paul Joseph Sachs [1878-1965], Cambridge; purchased 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 5, repro.
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 177, repro.
Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 4.
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. 177.
Wikidata ID
Q64953016