The Annunciation, c. 1480

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 16.3 x 11.2 cm (6 7/16 x 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 1, State only

Accession Number

1952.8.294

Artists / Makers

Martin Schongauer (artist) German, c. 1450 - 1491

Image Use

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Provenance

John Rushout, 6th bt. and 2nd baron Northwick [1770-1859], Northwick Park (Lugt 2709a); Gabriel Cognacq [1880 - 1951], Paris (Lugt 538d); (William Schab, New York); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1952; gift to NGA, 1952.

Associated Names

Cognacq, Gabriel
Northwick, John Rushout, 2nd baron, Sir
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1953: Nuremberg and the German World, 1460-1530: Prints and books from the Kress and Rosenwald Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1953, no cat.

1955: Miniatures and Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955, no cat.

1958: Life of Christ, Isaac Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA, 1958, no cat.

1961: Christmas Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1961-1962, no cat.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 64, repro.

1968: Fifteenth Century German Engravings from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 1968.

1969: Prints and Illuminations for the Christmas Season, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969-1970, no cat.

1971: Christmas Print Exhibition, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, 1971-1972, no cat.

1973: Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Prints of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art Rosenwald Collection, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1973, no. 21.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997, no cat.

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, 1908-1934.

1949: Hollstein, F.W.H. et al. German engravings, etchings and woodcuts ca. 1400-1700. 8 vols. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger, 1954-1868. Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts, ca. 1450-1700. Vols. I-XV, XVIII, XIX. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberge

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. 64.