Christ Appearing to Mary Magdalene, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in maroon, orange, yellow, blue-green, mauve, and flesh; possibly applied with stencils

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 554, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.497

Artists / Makers

French 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

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

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1955: French Woodcuts, Engravings and Books of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1960: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1960, no cat.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 89, repro.

1965: Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 31.

1968: The Golden Age of the Woodcut: 1450-1550, Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1968, no. 7.

1971: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Fredericksburg, VA, 1971, no. 3, repro.

1971: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Saint John's College, Santa Fe, NM, 1971, no catalogue.

1990: Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 8, 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. 89.

1990: Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 8.