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Christ Child on Donkey, c. 1500

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in yellow, rose, and brown

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 8.1 x 5.5 cm (3 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 793

Accession Number

1943.3.525

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

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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 complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 114, 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. 114.

2013: Acres, Alfred. Renaissance Invention and the Haunted Infancy. London and Turnhout, 2013: 84-85, fig. 51.

Christ Child on Donkey, c. 1500

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