The Mass of Saint Gregory [recto], c. 1490

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in red, yellow, cinnamon, lilac, possibly with stencil

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, Vol. *, no. 1463, State a

Accession Number

1943.3.611.a

Artists / Makers

French 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 34.

1955: French Woodcuts, Engravings and Books of the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, The Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1955.

1956: Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1960: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1960, no cat.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 229, 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. 229.

1995: Netzer, Nancy and Virginia Reinburg. Memory and the Middle Ages, Boston College Museum of Art, 1995: fig. 15.