The Mass of Saint Gregory, c. 1490/1500

Not on View

Medium

engraving on two joined sheets of laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 46.5 × 29.4 cm (18 5/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Lehrs, Vol. 9, p.289, no. 354, State i/ii

Accession Number

1954.12.91

Artists / Makers

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

Image Use

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Inscription

center, in image on altar cloth, in plate: I jehsus maria M; bottom center, in image, in plate: IVM [artist's monogram]; across bottom, in plate: Quotiens quis coram armis christi quicumque orationes apostolicas cum quicumque Pater Noster et Ave Maria devote dixerit XX milibus annorum a penis purgatorii exonoratus erit (Whoever recites in the presence of the arms of Christ the Apostle's Creed, the Pater Noster, and the Ave Maria, and as often as he does so, shall be pardoned 20,000 years of punishment in purgatory [translation from Alan Shestack, "Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe." Exh. catalogue, Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1967, no. 215.]); verso, at center, in graphite by a later hand: C 28708 / B.102; at lower left, in graphite by a later hand: Del / B.102

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Richard H. Zinser, Forest Hills, NY); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], 1953; gift to NGA, 1954.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1960: Gothic to Baroque, Allentown Art Museum, 1960, no. 69.

1967: Fifteenth Century Engravings of Northern Europe from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., NGA, 1967-1968, no. 215, repro.

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. 354, i/ii.

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. 354, i/ii.

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. 215.

1993: Parshall, Peter. "Imago contrafacta: Images and Facts in the Northern Renaissance." Art History 16:4 (1993): 557-558, pl. 5.