Design for a Beaker and a Pax

c. 1480

Master of St. Sebastian

Artist, German, active c. 1470/1490

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 17.6 × 11.4 cm (6 15/16 × 4 1/2 in.)
    sheet (irregular): 20.5 × 14.5 cm (8 1/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.5811

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.199, no. 10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Trivulzio Collection, Milan; (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 76.

1953

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.

1965

  • Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 44.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 32, 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. 32.

Inscriptions

verso, at bottom, in graphite by a later hand: 48 KK1467

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65023851

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