Allegory of the Eucharist

c. 1470/1490

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

This is a painting featuring a religious scene with symbolic imagery. It includes an altar or pedestal in the center with two figures on either side. There is a red and white pattern on top of the pedestal. Above the figures is a representation of a holy being with a radiant aura and a dove below. Various clouds and abstract shapes, some in reds and blues, surround the apex figure. The color palette consists of earthy tones of brown and beige, with accents of red, blue, and green.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in lt. brown, hand-colored in blue, green,orange, and gold

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.759

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1843, State u

Artwork history & notes

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

Exhibition History

1965

  • Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 268, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64953334

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