Madonna and Child in a Rosary

c. 1480

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in red lake, yelllow, black,green, brown, and rose

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 18.5 x 12.5 cm (7 5/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 22.3 x 16 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.567

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1132, State a

Artwork history & notes

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 more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1962

  • Wilson College, Chambersburg, PA, 1962, no cat.

  • Installation during Fine Art Festival, American River College, Sacramento, CA, 1962, no cat.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 172, 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. 172.

Wikidata ID

Q64953010

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