The Adoration of the Magi

c. 1485

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in orange, green, and rose

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.455

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 108, State d


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Paul Heitz, Strassburg; Charles Stonehill, London; acquired 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 11, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

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: no. 11.

Wikidata ID

Q64952890


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