The Death of Virginia

c. 1525

Christoph Bockstorfer

Artist, German, 1490 - 1553

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray, yellow, and green washes on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Anonymous Gift

  • Dimensions

    overall: 43.2 x 33 cm (17 x 13 in.)

  • Accession

    2005.50.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Walter Hugelshofer, Zurich. Les Enluminures, Paris and Chicago; Private collection; Anonymous Gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Die Kunst der Donauschule, 1490 - 1540, Schlossmuseum Linz, 1965, no. 339.

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 10.

2012

  • Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 46.

Bibliography

1998

  • Catalogue 3. Enluminures, Vélines, Dessins du XIIe au XIXe siècle/Illuminations, Gouaches, Drawings from the 12th to the 19th centuries. Les Enluminures, Paris, 1998, no. 42.

Inscriptions

by unknown contemporary hand, lower center on floor in black ink: APPIO CLAVDIO; VIRGINIA; VIRGINIVS

Wikidata ID

Q64540017

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