Christ and the Woman of Samaria

c. 1440/1460

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

The image shows three individuals from the upper torso up. The person on the left is standing with their profile visible, wearing a long robe and a headpiece. They have visible facial hair and tousled brown hair. The other two individuals, a woman in the middle and a man to the right, are facing slightly towards the first person. The woman wears a red garment over a blue skirt and a head covering, while the man wears a green garment with a red lining. They stand on a green, grassy area with a red jar-like object on the ground near them. In the background, there is a hilly landscape with pink structures under a pale blue sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, tan, blue, and yellow

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.457

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 141, State b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 3, 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. 3.

Wikidata ID

Q64952892

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