The Mass of Saint Gregory

c. 1480/1485

Israhel van Meckenem

Artist, German, c. 1445 - 1503

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1949.5.75

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.288, no. 353, State i/v

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1948; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 16, repro.

1953

  • Flight, Fantasy, Faith, Fact: A Loan Exhibition Commemorating the Fiftieth Anniversary of Powered Flight, Dayton Art Institute, OH, 1953-1954, no. 107.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 214, 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.

1949

  • Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

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. 214.

2018

  • Porras, Stephanie._ Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce and Devotion_. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2018, p. 97, fig. 51.

Inscriptions

lower left, in image, in plate: I.M. [artist's monogram]; lower right, in image, in plate: bocholt; across bottom, in plate: Quicumque devote septem orationes apostolicas coram Christi armis legerit et septem Pater Noster Ave Maria subiunxerit quotiens id fecerit de in dulgentia XX milium annorum gaudebit (Whoever piously recites before the instruments of Christ's Passion seven Credos, seven Pater Nosters and Ave Marias, and as often as he does, shall enjoy an indulgence of 20,000 years) [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 214.]

Wikidata ID

Q65073761

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