A Lectern Cloth with the Marriage at Cana

c. 1400

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut on linen, hand-colored in brown and red

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall (fragment): 120.7 x 85.1 cm (47 1/2 x 33 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.5.81

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Field 1965, no. 1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Innichen (Tirol), Austria; Count Wilczek, Schloss Seebarn (Kreutzenstein), Lower Austria; Robert Forrer, Strasbourg; Leopold Heinemann, New York; (William H. Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1949; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Rosenwald Collection: An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, NGA, 1950, no. 21, repro.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 1, repro.

1982

  • Lessing J. Rosenwald: Tribute to a Collector, NGA, 1982, no. 3, repro.

2005

  • Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 24, repro.

Bibliography

1965

  • Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

1991

  • Wilckens, Leonie von. Die textilen Künste von der Spätantike bis zum 1500 (Munich: C.H. Beck, 1991), 166-69.

1996

  • Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 20; fig.1.2.

2015

  • Speelberg, Femke. “Fashion & Virtue: Textile Patterns and the Print Revolution, 1520-1620, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 73, no. 2 (2015): 8.

Wikidata ID

Q65070229

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