Beheading of Saint John the Baptist

c. 1480

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.137

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.296, no. 366, State ii/iv

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale 165, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 6 May 1930, no. 879); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • Music in Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no catalogue.

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. 195, 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. 195.

Watermarks

Gothic P with flower

Wikidata ID

Q64958385

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