Bust of a Monk Assisting at Communion

Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 12.5 x 10.3 cm (4 15/16 x 4 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1952.8.295

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Winzinger 1962, no. 13


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Friedrich August II of Saxony (1696-1763); (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd.); Lessing J. Rosenwald.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1961

  • Masterpieces: A Memorial Exhibition for Adele R. Levy, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1961, no. 58, repro.

1967

  • Friends Collect, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1967.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 19.

1979

  • Early German Drawings & Prints: Two Recent Acquisitions and Related Works, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 2.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

Bibliography

1962

  • Winzinger, Franz. Die Zeichnungen Martin Schongauers. Berlin: Deutscher Verein fur Kunstwissenschaft, 1962.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 658, no. 1036, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q64607404


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