Saint Benedict

1450/1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in brown, olive, yellow, androse

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession

    1943.3.630

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1268, State b

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Sale, C.G. Boerner, Leipzig. Cat. 170, 27-28 April 1931, no. 8). (Charles Stonehill, London); purchased 28 October 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; gift 1943 to the NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 13.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 204, 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. 204.

Wikidata ID

Q64953099

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