Madonna in a Wreath of Roses, 1490/1500

Not on View

Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, and gray-yellow

Dimensions

diameter (trimmed within plate mark): 17.8 cm (7 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1012, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.553

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Wilhelm Schreiber. R. von Seydlitz. C.A. de Bourlet. Jacques Rosenthal; purchased from (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); acquired 29 July 1930 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift 1943 to NGA.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 36, repro.

1957: The Printmaker: 1450-1950, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, 1957.

1959: Old Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1959.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 156, repro.

1968: Good and Bad Angels, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, IN, 1968, no catalogue.

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 8.

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. 156.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 28-29; fig.1.10, 28.

1998: Olson, Roberta J. M. "The Rosary and Its Iconography, Part I: Background for Devotional Tondi," Arte Cristiana LXXXVI (July-August 1998): 272, fig. 6.