Coat of Arms with Tumbling Boy

c. 1480/1490

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

Israhel van Meckenem after Master of the Housebook

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.166

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.410, no. 521, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg [1805-1865], Klein-Oels, Silésie (Lugt 2669); (sale 176, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 2 May 1932, no. 40); (Charles Stonehill, London); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1933; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1955

  • Speed Museum, Louisville, KY, 1955.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 206, repro.

1990

  • Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 110, repro.

1997

  • Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999, as.

1999

  • The Medieval Housebook: The Real and the Ideal, A Fifteenth-Century View of Life, The Frick Collection, New York, 1999.

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. 206.

1990

  • Russell 1990, no. 110.

Wikidata ID

Q64958510

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