The Visitation

c. 1450/1460

Master E.S.

Associated Names
Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

The image shows two figures standing next to each other. The figure on the left is looking down with long hair and wearing a robe and veil. The figure on the right has a halo over their head, short hair under a veil, and is wearing a similar robe. Their hands are clasped. Both figures have halos. In the background are rock formations, hills, trees, a village-like structure with spires, and a bird on a rock.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 9.4 × 6.8 cm (3 11/16 × 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.9099

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.060, no. 14, State unique

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Collection Meyer-Hildburghausen; Collection Clément, Paris; Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie, and by descent to his heirs; (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2-3 May 1932, no. 53); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 59.

1943

  • Selections from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1944, pp. 16-17, repro.

1965

  • Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 20, repro.

1967

  • Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 43, repro.

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 7, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 6, 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. 7.

Wikidata ID

Q65023735

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