Saint John the Baptist and Saint Christopher

1470/1480

German 15th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.617

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1518, State a

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1962

  • The Saints in Prints & Illuminations from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, The Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1962-1963, no. 40.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 231, repro.

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 17.

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. 231.

Wikidata ID

Q64953076

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