The Madonna and Child with a Pear

c. 1440/1460

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving, hand-colored in red, orange, green, yellow, blue, and tan

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 8.5 × 6.2 cm (3 3/8 × 2 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 8.9 × 6.2 cm (3 1/2 × 2 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.751

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.243, no. 43, State unique

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Stadtbibliothek, Frankfurt-am-Main [1]; purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979]; gift to NGA, 1943.
[1] The print was found pasted into the front cover of a manuscript in the Cathedral library of Frankfurt

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1941

  • The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1941, no. 58, repro.

1956

  • Selected Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, City Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, 1956.

1967

  • Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 251, 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, 196: no. 251.

Inscriptions

none

Wikidata ID

Q64953316

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