A Censer
c. 1480/1490
Artist, German, c. 1450 - 1491
Martin Schongauer
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 31.3 x 21.2 cm (12 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.89
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hollstein, no. 106, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale 4, Gutekunst and Co., Stuttgart, 1870); Hohenzollern Museum, Sigmaringen; (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
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.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 110, repro.
1994
Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994.
1997
Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.
Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.
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. 110.
Watermarks
profile head with star
Wikidata ID
Q64960308