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Madonna and Child

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Medium

engraving

Dimensions

image: 3.1 cm (diameter)

sheet: 3.5 × 3.4 cm (1 3/8 × 1 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.750

Artists / Makers

Master with the Flower Borders (artist) German, active c. 1450/1470

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Inscription

on verso, in brown ink: [indecipherable fragment]

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 19 August 1939 purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979]; gift to the 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

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

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.

Madonna and Child

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