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Israhel van Meckenem

Christ Washing the Feet of the Apostles, c. 1480

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series Title

Twelve Scenes of the Pasion [Lehrs 142-153]

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21.3 x 15 cm (8 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.150, no. 142, State i/vi

Accession Number

1952.8.264

Artists / Makers

Israhel van Meckenem (artist) German, c. 1445 - 1503

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center, in plate: I.M. [artist's monogram]; verso, in graphite, by a later hand, lower left: B.10; in graphite, by a later hand, lower left: 2 Geel.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Geelhand Collection, Antwerp; D'Arenberg Collection, Brussels and Westphalila (Lugt 567); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1952; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Arenberg, A. d', Prince
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1956: The Life of Christ in Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1956-1957, no cat.

1957: The Life of Christ in Prints, 14 venue touring exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts (J.B. Speed Museum, Louisville, KY; Grand Rapids Art Gallery, MI; Time, Inc., New York, NY; Washington County Museum, Hagerstown, MD; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Newcomb College, New Orleans, LA; Wells College, Aurora, NY; Mississippi Art Association, Jackson, MS; Calgary Allied Arts Centre, Alberta, Canada; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; Sackville Art Association, New Brunswick, Canada; and Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada), 1957-1960, no cat.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 183, repro.

1999: Tilman Riemenschneider: Master Sculptor of the Late Middle Ages, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2000.

2023: Art of Enterprise: Israhel van Meckenem and his Late Medieval Print Shop, Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2023-2024.

Bibliography

1908: Lehrs, Max. Geschichte und kritischer Katalog des deutschen, niederlandischen und franzosischen Kupferstichs im XV. Jahrhundert. 9 vols. and 1 plate vol. Vienna: Gesellschaft fur vervielfaltigende Kunst, 1934: Vol. 9, no. 142, i/vi.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. Blaricum: A.L. van Gendt B.V., 1986: Vol. XXIV, no. 142, i/vii.

1967: Shestack, Alan. Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Exh. cat. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1967/; no. 183.