Christ Appearing to the Magdalene as a Gardner

1460/1480

Workshop of Master of the Borders with the Four Fathers of the Church

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

Master of the Borders with the Four Fathers of the Church

Related Artist, German, active c. 1470

The image shows two figures. One figure is standing while the other is kneeling. The standing figure is depicted facing forward with one hand raised holding a shovel and the other hand resting by his side. He has long hair and a beard and a halo around his head. He is wearing a robe and standing barefoot on patchy green ground. The kneeling figure is shown beside the standing figure. She has long hair covered with a veil or headscarf, a halo around her head, and wears draped robes with a cloak. The background includes woven wicker structures, greenery, a textured tree with dense foliage, and a decorative border of yellow and orange floral motifs.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    metalcut, hand-colored in yellow, red-brown lake, and green

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 6.3 × 4.7 cm (2 1/2 × 1 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.676

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 2388, State a

  • Series Title

    Twenty Scenes from the Oxford Passion

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 44f.

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 311, repro.

1990

  • Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, NGA, 1990, no. 7, 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.

1990

  • Clayton, Virginia Tuttle. Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1990: 7.

2004

  • Weekes, Ursula. Early Engravers and Their Public: the Master of the Berlin Passion and Manuscripts from Convents in the Rhine-Maas Region, ca. 1450-1500. London: Harvey Miller, 2004, pp. 87-88, fig. 96.

Watermarks

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Wikidata ID

Q64962910

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