Holy Kinship

1490/1500

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut, hand-colored in green, yellow, red lake, and light brown

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • 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

  • 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


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