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The Madonna and Child with a Pear, c. 1440/1460

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Medium

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

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.)

Credit Line

Accession Number

1943.3.751

Artists / Makers

Image Use

none

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

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius
Stadtbibliothek, Frankfurt-am-Main

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.

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.

The Madonna and Child with a Pear, c. 1440/1460