Saint Valentine, Saint Stephen and Saint Maximilian, 1498

Not on View

Medium

color woodcut

Dimensions

image: 26.7 x 16.8 cm (10 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.)

sheet: 35 x 23.5 cm (13 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 262, State i/ii

Accession Number

1943.3.757

Artists / Makers

Hans Burgkmair I (artist) German, 1473 - 1531

Erhard Ratdolt (publisher) German, 1447 - 1528

Image Use

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Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA; 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

Aufhäuser, Martin
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1962: Color in Prints: an Exhibition of European and American Color Prints from 1500 to the Present, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1962-1963, no. 1.

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 248, repro.

1965: Selected 15th Century Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1965, no. 31.

1968: The Golden Age of the Woodcut: 1450-1550, Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, 1968, no. 4, repro.

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

2012: Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475-1540, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012-2014, no. 17, repro. fig. 20.

Bibliography

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 102 vols, ongoing. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1957: V, no. 262, i/ii.

1965: Field, Richard S. Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1965.

1996: Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996, 38; fig.1.20, 38.