The Nativity

1552

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist, German, 1502 - 1555/1561

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 10.8 x 6.9 cm (4 1/4 x 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1964.8.1755

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b). Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1964 to the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 78, repro.

Bibliography

1970

  • Shestack, Alan. "Some Preliminary Drawings for Engravings by Heinrich Aldegrever." Modern Drawings 8, no. 2 (Summer 1970): 145, 148 nt. 20, fig. 34a.

1982

  • Fine, Ruth E. Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1982, no. 78.

  • Kaufmann 1982, 9.

1985

  • Kaufmann, Thomas Dacosta. "A Census of Drawings from the Holy Roman Empire, 1540-1680, in North American Collections" Central European History xviii, 1 (1985):4-13, 70-74, 75.

Inscriptions

lower center in black ink: (monogram "AG" below date "1552" in tablet in reverse)

Wikidata ID

Q64573398

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