Madonna and Child in a Glory Standing on a Crescent Moon

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in rose, green, yellow

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.560

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1093, State m

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, Sale 142, May 19-23, 1924, no. 64); Charles Stonehill, London; purchased 17 April 1940 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. 165, 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. 165.

Wikidata ID

Q64952999

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