The Rest on the Flight into Egypt at a Fountain, c. 1512/1515

Not on View

Medium

woodcut on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to image): 23 x 17.6 cm (9 1/16 x 6 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

New Hollstein, no. w. 47

Accession Number

1943.3.376

Artists / Makers

Albrecht Altdorfer (artist) German, 1480 or before - 1538

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in block, at lower center: artist's monogram; verso: at center, in black ink, in later hand: 204; at bottom left, in graphite, in later hand: 39; at bottom center, in graphite, in later hand: B59

Marks and Labels

verso: Gerhart Güttler (Lugt 2807b)

Provenance

Gerhard Güttler [1889 - 1966], Złoty Stok, Berlin, and Bad Tölz (Lugt 2807b); (his sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, May 7-9, 1928, lot 39); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA (Lugt 1760b); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Güttler, Gerhard
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1960: Graphic Masterpieces of 500 Years from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Louisiana State University Library, Baton Rouge, 1960, no. 8.

1998: Fountains: Splash and Spectacle, Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, 1998, no. 95.

Bibliography

1963: Winzinger, Franz. Albrecht Altdorfer, Graphik: Holzschnitte, Kupferstiche, Radierungen. Munich: R.Piper and Co., 1963.

1996: The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Albrecht Aldorfer, Ursula Mielke, author). Rotterdam: Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996-, no. w. 47.