The Knight of Men
1463
Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet/image: 13 × 8.8 cm (5 1/8 × 3 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1961.17.58
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.334, no. 249, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kornfeld and Klipstein, Bern); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1957; gift to NGA, 1961.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1964
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1964, no catalogue.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 9, repro.
Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 60, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 11.
2016
The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430-1540, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, no. 5.
Bibliography
1908
Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.
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. 9.
Inscriptions
recto: none; verso: at upper left in graphite in later hand: Le ? K [indecipherable]; at upper right in blue pencil in later hand: B 8 P. 98; at center in graphite in later hand: Meister E.S. L. 247; at lower left in graphite in later hand: 35 541
Markings
none
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65511217