The Jack of Parrots, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 6.9 × 6.7 cm (2 11/16 × 2 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 7, p.313, no. 74, State only

Accession Number

1948.11.138

Artists / Makers

Master PW of Cologne (artist) German, active c. 1490/1510

Image Use

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Provenance

The British Museum, duplicate (Lugt 300 and 305); Rudolf Gutmann [1880-1966, L2770], Vienna;[1] (Christian M. Nebehay, Vienna); sold to (William H. Schab Gallery, New York); sold 6 February 1948 to Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift 1948 to NGA.

[1]This print is inventory no. 828 of the Rudolf Gutmann collection confiscated by the Nazis in Austria in 1938. The collection was stored at the Zentraldepot in Vienna and transferred to the salt mine at Alt Aussee. The print was restituted to the Viennese dealer Christian Nebehay acting on Gutmann’s behalf in August 1947 (Restitution decision in Zl. 4716/47; export license in Zl 4694/47 dated 11 August 1947, all Bundesdenkmalamt, Vienna, copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

British Museum, The
Gutmann, Rudolf
Nebehay, Christian
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Schab Gallery, Inc., William H.

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 138, repro.

2016: The World in Play: Luxury Cards, 1430-1540, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2016, no. 6, repro. (fig. 47).

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. 138.