The Battle of Fornovo
1495/1506
Artist, French, active c. 1495

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving printed on two sheets of laid paper joined at center
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 40.9 × 63 cm (16 1/8 × 24 13/16 in.)
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Accession
1952.8.5
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Catalogue Raisonné
Shestack 1967, no. 261
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1952; gift to NGA, 1952.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1955
French Woodcuts, Engravings and Books of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.
1965
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 32.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 261, repro.
1982
Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 55, repro.
1998
Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Frick Collection, New York, 1998-99.
1999
The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal, A Fifteenth-Century View of Life, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999.
Bibliography
1967
Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 261.
Watermarks
column (close to Briquet 4386)
Wikidata ID
Q65362461