The Nativity

c. 1470/1475

Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Gift of W.G. Russell Allen

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 25.6 x 16.8 cm (10 1/16 x 6 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1941.1.42

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 5, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Karl Eduard von Liphart [1808-1891], Dupart, Bonn, and Florence; W.G. Russell Allen [1882-1955], Boston; gift to the NGA, 1941.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1959

  • An Exhibition of Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1959-1960, no cat.

1960

  • Christmas Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960-1961, no cat.

1964

  • Prints by Altdorfer, Dürer, Lucas van Leyden, and Schongauer from the National Gallery of Art Collection, Washington, D.C., 1964-1965, no cat.

1966

  • Master Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1966-1967, no cat.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 38, repro.

1971

  • Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 24, repro (catalogue lists incorrect provenance).

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, pp. 104-105, repro.

2000

  • Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

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.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

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. 38.

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art. Exh. cat. Museo Nacional de Antropologia, Mexico City, 1996: 104-105.

Wikidata ID

Q64960155

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