The Knight and the Lady, c. 1460/1465

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Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 13.9 x 11.3 cm (5 1/2 x 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.300, no. 212, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.194

Artists / Makers

Master E.S. (artist) German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

Image Use

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Provenance

Sternberg-Manderscheid Collection, Prague; Friedrich August II, King of Saxony [1797-1854], Dresden (Lugt 971); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Friedrich August II, King of Saxony
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

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. 12, repro.

1967: Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 58, repro.

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 111, repro.

1997: Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1998-1999.

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.

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. 12.

1990: Russell 1990, no. 111.