Joseph and the Christ Child, c. 1500

Not on View

Medium

engraving, hand-colored in red and green

Dimensions

sheet (diameter): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, undescribed

Accession Number

1943.3.746

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left, in red: ihus

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [d. 1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles;[1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1938; gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 256, repro.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1908-1934.

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967: no. 256.