The Madonna, c. 1490/1491

Not on View

Medium

engraving on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 17.1 x 11.9 cm (6 3/4 x 4 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Hollstein, no. 3, State only

Accession Number

1953.6.120

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Provenance

Gabriel Cognacq [1880 - 1951], Paris (Lugt 538d); (Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1939; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Cognacq, Gabriel
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1959: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln, 1959, no catalogue.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 115, repro.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

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. 115.

1985: Snyder, James E. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350-1575. New York, 1985: 285-286, fig. 296.