Saint Valentine

1470/1480

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 13.4 x 9.5 cm (5 1/4 x 3 3/4 in.)
    overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.632

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1717, State b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Heitz, Strassburg. (Charles Stonehill, London); purchased 8 January 1938 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. 247, repro.

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 20.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 98, 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. 247.

Inscriptions

at top, in block: Sat veletin bit got fur uns / zuraffach (Saint Valentin pray to God for us / at Rufach) [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. 309.]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64953101

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