Saint Peter, c. 1450/1460

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 9.5 × 6.1 cm (3 3/4 × 2 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 2, p.168, no. 100, State only

Accession Number

1943.3.196

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

at top, in halo, in plate: S Petrus; at top, in banderole, in plate: Credo in deum patrem onipotent creatorem celi et terre (I believe in God the Father Almighty, creator of heaven and earth)

Provenance

(sale 162, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 5 November 1929, no. 440); (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1929; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 64.

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 5.

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. 5, repro.

1967: Master E.S.: Five Hundredth Anniversary Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1967, no. 28, 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.

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. 5.