Double Portrait of Israhel van Meckenem and His Wife Ida
c. 1490
Israhel van Meckenem
Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503
Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13 x 17.5 cm (5 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.)
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Accession Number
1943.3.99
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.001, no. 1, State i/iii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard von Passavant-Gontard [1852-1923], Frankfurt; (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 10 May 1929, no. 705); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 4, repro.
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 112.
1945
Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 10.
1953
Renaissance Portraits, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, 1953, no cat.
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.
Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953-1954, no catalogue.
1954
Masterpieces from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1954, no catalogue.
1965
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond; and Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1965, no. 25.
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 244, repro.
1973
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 32, repro.
1979
Self-Portraits: Prints from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979.
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. 244.
1993
Spangenberg, Kristin L. ed. Six Centuries of Master Prints. Cincinnati, 1993: fig. 20-1.
1995
Luchs, Alison. Tullio Lombardo and Ideal Portrait Sculpture in Renaissance Venice, 1490-1530. Cambridge, England, and New York, 1995: 62, 63, 77, 252, fig. 82.
1996
Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, fig.1.43, 61.
1997
Richler, Martha. National Gallery of Art, Washington: A World of Art. London, 1997: 42-43, color fig. 23.
Inscriptions
bottom margin, at left, in plate: Figuratio facierum Israhelis et Ide eius uxoris (The portrait of Israhel and Ida his wife) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 244.]; bottom margin, at right, in plate: I.V.M [artist's monogram]
Watermarks
crowned shield with two fleurs-de-lis and two fish (Lehrs 35)
Wikidata ID
Q64958344