Holy Kinship
1490/1500
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in green, yellow, red lake, and light brown
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 26.5 x 38.9 cm (10 7/16 x 15 5/16 in.)
sheet: 26.7 x 39.1 cm (10 1/2 x 15 3/8 in.)
overall (exterior frame dimensions): 44.8 x 60 cm (17 5/8 x 23 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.636
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 1779, State a
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Freidrich August II, Dreden (Lugt 971); Josef Wunsch, Vienna; Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald (L. Supp. 1760c), 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
Exhibition History
1941
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 30.
1956
Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.
1965
Master Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, 1965, no. 16.
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 257, repro.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 80, 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. 257.
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64953120