Madonna on the Crescent

c. 1470

Martin Schongauer

Associated Names
Martin Schongauer

Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491

The image shows a woman holding a child in her arms. The woman has long, wavy hair, and the child has curly hair. They are both shown from the waist up and the woman is looking down at the child. The woman is wearing a long garment and a veil over her head, standing over a crescent. Two angels above them are holding part of an ornate crown over the woman's head. The background includes lines radiating from the figures and a few clouds beneath the crescent.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 17.2 x 10.8 cm (6 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.50

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Hollstein, no. 40, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

J.D. Böhm [1794-1865], Vienna; (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1954

  • Early German Prints, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, 1954.

1955

  • Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955.

1959

  • Graphic Art of Durer and Schongauer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 1959, no catalogue.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 35, repro.

1973

  • The Apocalypse, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, 1973, no. 3, 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.

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. 35.

Watermarks

triple mountain with cloverleaf (Lehrs 13)

Wikidata ID

Q64960237

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