Madonna in a Wreath of Roses
1490/1500
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, green, and gray-yellow
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
diameter (trimmed within plate mark): 17.8 cm (7 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.553
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 1012, State a
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Wikidata ID
Q64952990