Saint Michael

c. 1450/1470

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

The image shows a person dressed as an angel, positioned upright. They have blonde hair and serene facial expression, wearing a long red robe with a white hem. The angel has large ornate wings that are green with red borders, holding a balance scale with two pans. One pan contains a figure dressed in white with a red hat, and the other contains a smaller figure in a red and gray outfit. The angel also has a pink halo. The background includes green grass and blue horizontal stripes in the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.621

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. *, no. 1628, State b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Weiss & Co., Munich); 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 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

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 237, 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. 237.

Wikidata ID

Q64953081

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