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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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