View across a River to a Walled City at Sunset, 1540s

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 15.5 × 23.1 cm (6 1/8 × 9 1/8 in.)

sheet: 17.8 × 24.3 cm (7 × 9 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler (vol II, no. 589) undesc

Accession Number

2013.71.1

Artists / Makers

Master CR (artist) German, active c. 1530 - 1550

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: CR (in monogram)

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Unknown 19th century collector, part of an album of Hirschvogel prints. (sale, Christie's London, 6 December 2012, no. 29); (C. G. Boerner, New York); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.

Exhibition History

2022: The Renaissance in the North: New Prints and Perspectives, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2022.

Bibliography

1858: Nagler, G.K. Die Monogrammisten und diejenigen bekannten und unbekannten Kunstler aller Schulen .... 5 vols. Munich: G. Franz, 1858-1879. Reprint. Munich: G. Hirth's Verlag, 1919, vol. II, no. 589, undesc.

1957: Schmitt, Annegrit. Hans Lautensack. Nuremberg: Verein für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg, 1957, p. 104 under cat. 97, fig. 58.