Saints Thomas and James the Less, c. 1480/1485

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series Title

The Twelve Apostles in Six Sheets [Lehrs 294-299]

Medium

engraving

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.247, no. 296, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.131

Artists / Makers

Israhel van Meckenem (artist) German, c. 1445 - 1503

Image Use

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Inscription

below figures, in image, in plate: Descendit ad inferna, Ascendit ad celos (He descended to hell, He ascended to heaven) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 198.]; below inscription, in plate: I.M. [artist's monogram]

Provenance

Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669); (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2 May 1932, no. 21); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Wartenburg, Yorck von, Count

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 198, 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. 198.