Sacred Monogram in a Sacred Heart on a Cloth Held by an Angel
c. 1480
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in red, green, yellow, gold,and orange
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
Overall: 8.2 x 6.5 cm (3 1/4 x 2 9/16 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 39.4 x 31.8 cm (15 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.802
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1793, State c
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Anton W.M. Mensing; Sotheby's, December 16, 1936, lot 228.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1965
Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 259, repro.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 79, 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.
Inscriptions
at bottom, in block: Das hertz ist durch stohen worden mit / dem sper unsers heren ihesu cristi (This heart has been pierced with the spear [that pierced] our Lord Jesus Christ) [translation from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 261.]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64953399