The Nativity

c. 1480

Workshop of Master of the Aachen Madonna

Associated Names
Master of the Aachen Madonna

Related Artist, German, active c. 1460/1480

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    metalcut, hand-colored in green, red, and yellow on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 7.9 × 5.9 cm (3 1/8 × 2 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.763

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 2195


Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 329, 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.

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64962965

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