Joseph and the Christ Child
c. 1500
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving, hand-colored in red and green
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (diameter): 3 cm (1 3/16 in.)
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Accession
1943.3.746
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lehrs, undescribed
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
upper left, in red: ihus
Wikidata ID
Q64953311