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Inscription

upper center, in plate: I V M [artist's monogram]; in frame around central image, in plate: Ave potentissima et humilissima virgo Maria. Ave sapientissima et humilissima virgo Maria. Ave benignissima et humilissima virgo Maria. Gratia plena dominus tecum. (Hail most powerful and humblest Virgin Mary. Hail most wise and humblest Virgin Mary. Hail sweetest and humblest Virgin Mary. Full of grace, the Lord is with thee. [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 211.]; verso, in graphite, by a later hand, lower left: B. 45[?] / G. 176 / Mc 27293; in graphite, by a later hand, lower right: 3 [encircled] / C2286

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

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. 211, repro.
1997
Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.
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. 191.
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. 191.
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. 211.

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