The Virgin Crowned by Two Angels

c. 1500

German 15th Century

Associated Names
German 15th Century

Artist

The image depicts a woman holding a child. The woman has long hair and is dressed in a flowing gown. She has a halo around her head and two winged figures are putting a crown on her head. There are flowing lines and a plant in the foreground. The artwork is done in a monochromatic woodcut style.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    white line woodcut on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 15 × 9.4 cm (5 7/8 × 3 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1953.6.253

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Schreiber, no. 2869

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Martin Aufhäuser [1875-1944], Munich, Holland, and Los Angeles; [1] purchased 1939 by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA (L1760c); gift to NGA, 1953.
[1] For more information on Aufhäuser's collection, see Gallery Archives, National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Papers, Box 9; Lessing J. Rosenwald, Recollections of a Collector, Jenkintown, Pa, 1976, pp. 14-18, 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. 23, 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, 290.

Wikidata ID

Q65218577

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