The Knight and the Lady

c. 1460/1465

Master E.S.

Associated Names
Master E.S.

Artist, German, active c. 1450 - active 1467

The image shows two figures standing side by side. On the left, a woman with curly hair, a floral wreath, and a staff with a banner is softy looking to her side. On the right, a man with long wavy hair, exotic features, and wearing armor is standing with one hand on his hip, holding a helmet in his other hand. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.194

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 9.

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.

  • 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.

Wikidata ID

Q64960403

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