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Martin Schongauer

Death of the Virgin, c. 1470/1475

Not on View

series Title

Life of the Virgin [Lehrs 5-7, 16]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 26.1 x 17.2 cm (10 1/4 x 6 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 16, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.34

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

Joseph Otto Entres [1804-1870], Munich (Lugt 2941); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Entres, Joseph Otto
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 85, repro.

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 8.

1946: Cayuga Museum of History and Art, Auburn, NY, 1946.

1949: Goethe as a Print Lover: to Celebrate the Bicentennial of his Birth, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, 1949, no catalogue.

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.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965, no. 22.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 41, repro.

1968: Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, 1968-1969, no catalogue.

1971: Albrecht Dürer: The Early Graphic Works, Princeton University Art Museum, NJ, 1971, no. 27, repro.

1975: The Inspired Copy: Artists Look at Art, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1975, no. 10A, repro.

1983: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

1995: Imitation and Invention: Old Master Prints and Their Sources, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995.

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. 41.