Christ's Entry into Jerusalem [left]

c. 1450/1460

Master of St. Erasmus

Associated Names
Master of St. Erasmus

Artist, German, active c. 1450/1470

The image shows a medieval-style woodcut featuring four figures. The central figure is sitting on a donkey to the right, pointing forward with an extended arm. He has a long beard, long hair, and wears a robe, with a halo above his head. Two other figures behind him also have halos, looking serene, with similar hair and robe styles. They are standing. In front of them, another figure stands at a building entrance wearing a hat, robe, and a visible collar. A small tower or city gate is in the background on the right, with a tree slightly behind the standing figures. The image has a medieval aesthetic with simple lines and details.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 5.7 × 3.7 cm (2 1/4 × 1 7/16 in.)
    plate: 6.4 × 4.4 cm (2 1/2 × 1 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 7.1 × 13.5 cm (2 13/16 × 5 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.5813.b

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 3, p.240, no. 7, State only

Associated Artworks

This is a drawing of a religious scene with figures inside rectangular openings. The image depicts a central haloed figure with a raised hand holding a flowered staff, seated with two other haloed figures standing on either side. Below them are several smaller figures emerging from rectangular openings in the ground. The drawing is done in a linear, black and white style illustrative of medieval religious art.

The Last Judgment [right]

Master of St. Erasmus

1450

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 165, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 6-9 May 1930, no. 889); (Dr. F.J. Heilbroner); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 72a.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 23, 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. 23.

Wikidata ID

Q65023849

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