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German 15th Century or Master with the Mountain-Like Clouds

The Madonna Enthroned with Eighteen Holy Women, c. 1480/1490

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Medium

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

Dimensions

image: 32.8 x 24.8 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)

sheet: 42.2 x 26 cm (16 5/8 x 10 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 2519, State m

Accession Number

1943.3.704

Artists / Makers

Master with the Mountain-Like Clouds (artist) German, active c. 1480/1490

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Provenance

Jacques Rosenthal, Munich, cat. 71, no. 249; Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge; purchased 1938 by Lessing J. Rosenwald; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1941: The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 50.

1960: Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 60.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 346, repro.

1977: Paper in Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no. 134.

1990: Eva/Ave: Woman in Renaissance and Baroque Prints, NGA, 1990, no. 58, 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: Russell 1990, cat.no.58.

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