Saint Onuphrius

c. 1450

German 15th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in ochre, pink, gray, and red

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.8 x 19.1 cm (10 15/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 29.3 x 21 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
    overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.622

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. *, no. 1639, State x

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Weiss & Co., Munich, no. 59); 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. 24, repro.

1956

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

1959

  • Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.

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. 38.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 238, repro.

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 16.

1983

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

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 102, 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. 238.

Inscriptions

in block, in banderole at left: Isti ditantur donis qui me venantur / Nunquam dampnantur nec hostes eis dominantur (Those are enriched by gifts who hunt me; neither shall they be condemned nor shall the enemy prevail against them); below image, by hand in ink: sanctus onophrius
[translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 317.

Watermarks

ring, with four facets

Wikidata ID

Q64953082

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