Jesus Attracting the Faithful to Heart, 1480/1490

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Medium

woodcut, hand-colored in yellow, green, brown, red lake, and olive brown

Dimensions

Overall: 12.7 x 18.1 cm (5 x 7 1/8 in.)
overall (external frame size): 31.8 x 39.4 cm (12 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber, no. 1838

Accession Number

1943.3.853

Artists / Makers

German 15th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

at top center, on banderole, in block: Sun gib mir din hercz / den ich lieg hab. Dem / läß ich sträff nit ab. (Son, give me your heart. I do not remit the punishment of the one that I hold dear.); at center, on banderole, in block: O herr das will ich. das / beger ich darumbe / so soltu ziehe mich (O Lord, this I want, I desire it, for this reason thus should you pull me.); at upper right, on card held by angel, in block: Gedenck der / letste zÿt so / sündest du / nÿmmer (Think of the last days; then you will never sin.)

[translations from Parshall, Peter, and Rainer Schoch. _Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public._ Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2005, p. 282.]

Provenance

Weigel & Zestermann. Przibram Collection, Vienna. (Weiss & Co., Munich); Martin Aufhäuser [d.1944], Munich and Holland; [1] purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c and L1932d); gift to NGA, 1943.

[1] For complete information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Rosenwald Papers, box 9, and Richard S. Field, Fifteenth Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts, Washington, D.C., 1965, Preface (np).

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1965: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Metalcuts from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art, NGA, 1965-1966, no. 266, repro.

2005: Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public, NGA and Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, 2005-2006, no. 88, 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, no. 266.