Saint Christopher [recto]
c. 1450/1470
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in brown and yellow
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (irregular fragment): 14.1 x 9.9 cm (5 9/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
overall (external frame dimensions): 31.8 x 25.4 cm (12 1/2 x 10 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.840.a
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, Vol. IX, no. 1371, State m
Associated Artworks

Christ on a Goldsmith's Cross
French 15th Century
1450
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. 217, repro.
2005
Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 14, 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.
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64953476