Madonna and Child in a Glory

c. 1475

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in brown, hand-colored in red lake, blue, yellow, green, gold, and orange; retouched with pen and ink

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.557

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1079, State (=1078)


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Oettingen-Wallerstein Collection, Maihingen; (Charles Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased 8 April 1937 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 161, 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. 161.

Wikidata ID

Q64952995


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