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The Descent of the Holy Ghost, c. 1450

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Medium

woodcut with hand coloring in tan, brown, orange-red, green, rose, red lake, blue, and gold on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.9 × 15.7 cm (8 1/4 × 6 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 587, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.513

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: none; verso: in graphite, in later hand, at upper right: 70; in graphite, in later hand, above center: S [?] 1406; in graphite, in later hand, left of center: 15 G 47; in graphite, in later hand, at bottom left: B-3068

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

J.H. von Hefner-Alteneck. Siegfried Laemmle [1863-1953], Munich; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L.1760c and L.1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 11, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Aufhäuser, Martin
Laemmle, Siegfried
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 100, repro.

1965: Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 5.

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. 100.

The Descent of the Holy Ghost, c. 1450