Inscription
upper center, on altar, in plate: IS / RAH / EL // VA / MECK / EN; in margin below image, in plate: Israhel. V. M.; verso, in graphite, by later hand, at upper right: B.33 34; in graphite, by later hand, at lower left: B. 33 G. 76; in graphite, by later hand, at lower right: 712
Marks and Labels
none
Provenance
Czartoryski Collection, Poland; (sale C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 712); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1928; gift to NGA, 1943.
Exhibition History
- 1947
- Six Centuries of Prints, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1947.
- 1958
- Christmas Prints (gift of W.G. Russell Allen and from the Rosenwald Collection), National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1958-1959, no catalogue.
- 1965
- Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 55.
- 1967
- Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 219, repro.
- 1990
- Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 34, repro.
- 2023
- Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem and his Late Medieval Print Shop, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023-2024.
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, 1934: Vol. 9, no. 53.
- 1949
- Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Blaricum: A.L. van Gendt B.V., 1986: Vol. XXIV, no. 53.
- 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. 219.
- 1990
- Russell 1990, no. 34.
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