The Baptism of Christ, c. 1480/1490

Not on View

Medium

engraving

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 15.8 x 15.8 cm (6 1/4 x 6 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 8, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.32

Artists / Makers

Martin Schongauer (artist) German, c. 1450 - 1491

Image Use

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Provenance

Count Giuseppe Archinto [1783-1861], Milan; Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669); (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2 May 1932, no. 81); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Archinto, Giuseppe Count
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Wartenburg, Yorck von, Count

Exhibition History

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no catalogue.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no catalogue.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 76, repro.

1968: Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

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.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

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. 76.