Madonna and Child

c. 1450/1470

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

The image depicts a woman holding a child. The woman is standing upright, while cradling the child in her arms. She has an oval face with delicate features and long flowing hair. The child has youthful features and curly hair. The woman is dressed in a layered ensemble, with a red garment underneath and a green robe on top. The child is lightly colored. Surrounding them is a pattern of lines suggesting illumination, with red segments accentuating the background. The backdrop is a flat, textured surface.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving, hand-colored in green and red

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to oval shape): 2.7 × 2.2 cm (1 1/16 × 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.753

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lehrs, Vol. 4, p.237, no. 34

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodor Oswald Weigel [1812-1881], Leipzig; ( Ludwig Rosenthal, Munich, Cat. 90, 1892, no.135); Martin Aufhäuser [d. 1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles;[1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; 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. 255, 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. 255.

Wikidata ID

Q64953324

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