Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in brown, vermilion, orange, blue, olive, and ochre
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 27.3 x 10.8 cm (10 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.)
sheet: 29.1 x 14 cm (11 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 59.7 x 44.5 cm (23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
1963.11.7
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1385, State a
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Dr. Erwin Rosenthal, Berkeley, CA); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1960; gift to the NGA, 1963.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 221, repro.
1968
L'Incisione Europea dal XV al XX Secolo, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 1968. no. 4, repro.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1973-1974, no. 39.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 101a, repro.
2014
Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2014 - 2015, no. 43a.
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.
Inscriptions
at bottom, in block: Sanctus Dominicus
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q65507033