Jesus Attracting the Faithful to Heart
1480/1490
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
woodcut, hand-colored in yellow, green, brown, red lake, and olive brown
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Credit Line
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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.) -
Accession
1943.3.853
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Catalogue Raisonné
Schreiber, no. 1838
Artwork history & notes
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
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.
Inscriptions
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.]
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64953492