The Stoning of Saint Stephen, c. 1470

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 15.2 x 20.5 cm (6 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.308, no. 383, State iii/iii [proof]

Accession Number

1943.3.144

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

Stiglmeier Collection; Chilpin Collection; Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669); (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2 May 1932, no. 27); (Charles Stonehill, London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Stiglmeier
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. 174, repro.

1997: Building a Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997-1998, no. 3.

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. 174.