Saint Alto

c. 1500

German 15th Century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand colored in burgundy, blue-green, orange, brown, red, and yellow-green

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.580

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 1185

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; Przibram, Vienna; (Charles Stonehill, London); purchased 28 July 1937 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760b and L1932d); gift 1943 to the NGA.

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Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no.38.

1962

  • The Saints in Prints & Illuminations from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, The Art Gallery of the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, 1962-1963, no. 15.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 184, repro.

1985

  • Landscape Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, no cat.

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 14, 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. 184.

1990

  • Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 14.

Wikidata ID

Q64953026

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