A Monk with an Angel

1480/1490

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

This print shows two people. One is an angel with large seafoam-green wings and long wavy blonde hair, wearing a red robe. They are floating in the air with one arm raised upwards and the other resting on the head of the second person, who kneels below them on the ground. The other person is a monk in a light brown robe with a hood resting on their back, holding an open green book in their right hand with their left hand extended outwards, the palm facing up. Both people are turned towards the right, and both have pale skin with slightly rosy cheeks. The sky behind them is beige, and the ground is a dark yellow color with some thin horizontal lines.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in red, olive-gray, light green, olive, blue, yellow, and pink

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.755

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1752

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Heinrich Kaspar Lempertz [1816-1898], Cologne; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L.1760c and L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

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Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 250, 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.

Wikidata ID

Q64953329

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