Saint John the Evangelist

c. 1460

Master of the Dutuit Mount of Olives

Artist, German, active c. 1450/1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    hand-colored engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image (printed borderlines): 6 × 4.1 cm (2 3/8 × 1 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 7.3 × 6.5 cm (2 7/8 × 2 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5784

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 3, p.273, no. 82, State (Master of St. Erasmus)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 10, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 1927, no. 197); (sale 14, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 1928, no. 174); (sale 22, Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Lucerne, 1930, no. 221); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1940; gift to NGA, 1943.

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. 26, repro.

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. 26.

Inscriptions

none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65023876

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