Saint Simon Zelotes (?) or Saint Judas Thaddeus (?)
c. 1470/1480
Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503
Artist After, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467
Israhel van Meckenem after Master E.S.
Attributed to
Artwork overview
-
Medium
engraving on laid paper
-
Credit Line
-
Dimensions
plate: 15.8 × 9.1 cm (6 1/4 × 3 9/16 in.)
sheet: 29.3 × 19.8 cm (11 9/16 × 7 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.127
-
Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.238, no. 278, State only
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Trivulzio Collection, Milan [1]; (purchased by P. & D. Colnaghi Co., London, 1929); (Kennedy and Co., New York, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] This is one of ten prints in a series of the Twelve Apostles by Israhel van Meckenem that was found bound into the Codex Trivulziana, a medieval prayer book in the Trivulzio Library, Milan. The codex was sold to P. & D. Colnaghi in 1929 and the engravings were subsequently removed.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1967
Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 165, repro.
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. 165.
Inscriptions
at top, in plate: S. Juda.; verso, lower left, in graphite by later hand: a74004
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64958493